I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds.
One must as willingly be nothing, as something. - Amy Carmichael
One must as willingly be nothing, as something.
- Amy Carmichael
God, harden me against myself! - Amy Carmichael
God, harden me against myself!
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord le… - Amy Carmichael
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord le…
We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them. - Amy Carmichael
We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.
Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him. - Amy Carmichael
Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.
All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey. - Amy Carmichael
All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice? - Amy Carmichael
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes. - Amy Carmichael
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.
Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? - Amy Carmichael
Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
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