Amy Carmichael

Over the first week of break I have begun to read A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael By Elisabeth Elliot. Some asked Amy what it was like to be a missionary and her response was "It is a chance to die." "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever want to seave his life will lose it, whoever loses his life for me will save it. What is good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet forfeit his very self?" Luke 9:23-25

Amy Carmichael grew up in Ireland in the late 1800s. She was the oldest of about 7 kids and her father died when she was in her teens. She started many programs to help the youth in her hometown. Amy truly understood what it means to love the "least of these." She began seeking out the children working in factories and she eventually brought so many of them to church with her that other members of the congregation got upset at the room they were taking up. So Amy started her own church, where everyone was welcome. I have only just gotten to the part where she actually leaves her home to become a missionary. Amy Carmichael later became known for saving children who were brought to Hindu temples, to be sold into prostitution. Throughout the 7 chapters I have read thus far, I have found many awesome scripture and quotes in this amazing book.

"The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and He knowth them that trust in Him"
-Nahum 1:7

"To obey is better than sacrifice" -1 Samuel 15:22

"If any say unto, why do ye this? say ye that the LORD hath need of him." -Mark 11:3

"My own peace, such as the world cannot give. Set your troubled hearts at rest, and banish your fears." -John 14:27

"Think truly, and thy thoughts shall be spotless with God's own purity.
On every thought-bud let us bear the stamp of truth, and love and prayer"

"Should we not see that our root is right, before expecting flowers and fruit?"

"To displace self from the inner thorn and to enthrone Him; to make not the slightest compromise with the smallest sin. We aim at nothing less than to walk with God all day long, to abide every hour in Christ and He and His word in us, to love God with all the heart and our neighbor as ourselves."

"It is possible by unreserved resort to divine power under divine conditions to become strongest through and through at our weakest point."

"Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them."