Amy Carmichael Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

  Amy Carmichael

  Sacrifice, Christ, Crosses

• What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Men, Secret

• It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

  Amy Carmichael

  Prayer, Soul, Relief

• If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Firsts, Christ

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.47, CLC Publications

• To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.

  Amy Carmichael

  Fall, Heart, Sight

• Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call prayer, or whether it be the action that follows, leads sooner or later to a new demand on personal devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ.

  Amy Carmichael

  Jesus, Prayer, Darkness

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