His Leading: Amy Carmichael

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Apology

I just read Transformed From Glory to Glory's blog and wow, I am glad I did.

She posted some quotes from Amy Carmichael's book, "If-What Do I Know of Calvary Love?"

They were all great but one specifically really cut to my core.

"If, I covet any place on earth but the dust at the foot of the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary Love."

Wow, I sit at my computer desk with no words left except,
"I am sorry, God."

Overflowing Hearts

"He lived serenely, as a greater artist than all other artists, despising marble and clay as well as color, working in living flesh. That is to say, this matchless artist...made neither statues nor pictures nor books; he loudly proclaimed that he made...living men, immortals."
-Vincent Van Gogh, on Jesus

"Thus we are fully engaged in the world on realistic terms, but empowered by vision and energies from a world that is unseen but even more real and realistic."
-Os Guinness

"If I covet any place on earth but the dust at the foot of the cross, I know nothing of Calvary love."
-Amy Carmichael

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman."
-Elisabeth Elliot

"It is probably impossible to love any human being simply 'too much'. We may love him too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love of God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinacy."
-C.S. Lewis

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
-Mother Teresa

"Suffering is not the worst thing that can happen to us. Disobedience to God is the worst thing."
-Tom White

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
-Jim Elliot

"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord."
-Sir Francis Drake

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters - yes, even his own life - he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple."
-Jesus Christ