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There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are ...

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He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord,For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat g...

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We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in t...

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

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country ...

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Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tire...

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If we were less of what seems like ease in our lives they would tell more for Christ and souls...We ...

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

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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 qua...

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We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: p...

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But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and ...

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We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give ...

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,Until it be according unto mine?But, no, Lord, no, ...

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I would rather burn out than rust out.

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far...

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to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes whe...

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He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be trou...

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Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are the...

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Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how ...

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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down o...

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You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly in...

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It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We...

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The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and ...

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A voice said, "Climb." And he said, "How shall I climb?the mountains are so steep that I cannot clim...

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A Very Present Help: Life Messages of Great Christans

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...

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God's Missionary

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the...

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If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; an...

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as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the ...

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One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He...

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Gold Cord

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

Gold by Moonlight

There is no house of life out of reach of the stream. So, to be surprised when the rain descends and...

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Gold by Moonlight

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, a...

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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 ...

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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...

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Toward Jerusalem
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Amy Carmichael

Born: 1867-12-16

Died: 1951-01-18

Amy Wilson Carmichael (December 16, 1867 – January 18, 1951) was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years without furlough and wrote many books about the missionary work there. She was also a prolific poet.More