Amy Carmichael Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

  Amy Carmichael

  Blessed, Blessing, Soul

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.56, CLC Publications

• If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Peace, Taken, Giving

  Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.23, Aneko Press

• 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.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Suffering, Spirit

• 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

• Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you!

  Amy Carmichael

  Monday, Morning, Fighting

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.44, CLC Publications

• 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.

  Amy Carmichael

  Heaven, Soul, Together

• 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

• We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.

  Amy Carmichael

  Pain, Heart, Night

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

• The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

  Amy Carmichael

  Silly, Soul, Training

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.14, CLC Publications

• There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Understanding, May

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.182, CLC Publications

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