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• Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

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  Feet, Delight, Littles

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• Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ...O may He strengthen you to say YES to Him if He asks something which costs.

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  Children, Cost, May

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• Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Feelings

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• If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Calvary, Hardest, Turns

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.53, CLC Publications

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• If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Forgiveness, Peace, Hurt

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.27, CLC Publications

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• If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Rain, Fall, Clouds

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• If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

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  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Amy Carmichael (2002). “Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• ...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.

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  Loneliness, Inspiration, Sadness

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• I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

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  Miracle, Wonder, Apostolic

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• If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Goal, Easier, Calvary

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.28, CLC Publications

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• If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Soul, Suffering, Spirit

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• It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. Ignatius
  If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Forgiveness, Hate, Men

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• If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

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  Names, Calvary, My Own

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.26, CLC Publications

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• O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still. Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied; From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide. Until this tyranny be overpast, Thy hand will hold me fast; What though the tumult of the storm increase, Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.

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  Christian, Art, Fall

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.466, CLC Publications

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• If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what is in the darkness and showeth it to us; if I forget that it was He who granted that ray of light to His most unworthy servant, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Christian, Light, Darkness

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.32, CLC Publications

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• Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, who could quail? Thou art as Thou wert yesterday. Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee, Fulfil Thy purposes through me.

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  Christian, Art, Inspiration

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• We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.

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  Christian, Prayer, Blessed

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• If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.51, Aneko Press

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• I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.

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  Long, Wish, Way

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• Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

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  Soldier, Gaps, Duty

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• One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together.

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  Heaven, Soul, Together

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• One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

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• If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

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  Disappointment, Attitude, Fear

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.21, CLC Publications

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• Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

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  Doe, Want, Matter

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• The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Responsible

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