Amy Carmichael Quotes
Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Madame Guyon Quotes
Basilea Schlink Quotes

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” -Mother Teresa

“One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.” – Joni Eareckson Tada

“Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins.” – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.” – Elisabeth Elliot

?”If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.” – E Elliot

Spirit of truth, of power, of love,
Who mak’st the contrite heart Thy seat,
The Father’s promise from above,
Blest Paraclete!
-Charlotte Elliott

“Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.” – Amy Carmichael

“Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.” – Basilea Schlink

“I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds.”
~Amy Charmichael

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you.”
– Susanna Wesley.

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. – Hannah Whitall Smith

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.- Hannah Whitall Smith

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee. -Nancy DeMoss

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls. ~ E. Prentiss

“…a woman can become a blessing to many (even to the one who harms her) through what she has learnt of God in her sorrows! To become a woman of God, one must be prepared to face many trials. Like the sandalwood tree that imparts its fragrance to the axe that cuts it.” -Dr. Annie poonen

“Oh God, here’s my Bible, Here’s my money. Here’s me. Use me, God.” – Gladys Alyward

As a single woman, especially grateful for the Body of Christ–what a gift!–and for the blessing and protection of godly counsel. – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Jesus died as He had lived–praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die? – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of his providence.” – Susannah Spurgeon

“Let me see what I have that will ‘abide the fire.'” – Susannah Spurgeon

I went up to a man and said ‘Jesus loves you’ …but I realised that it didn’t mean anything unless I did it. – Jackie Pullinger

I banked my life on a miracle.  – Jackie Pullinger

It is very much easier to do what God made you for than not. – Jackie Pullinger

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief. – Jackie Pullinger

People say to me. ‘What about the rich?’ They need Jesus too.’ Well, that’s fine if you’re called to them, but we’re called to the poor. The rich can look after themselves. – Jackie Pullinger

“On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.” – Corrie ten Boom

“Is it possible that you can trust your fellow men, and cannot trust your God; that you can receive the “witness of man,” and cannot receive the “witness of God”; that you can believe man’s records, and cannot believe God’s record; that you can commit your dearest earthly interests to your weak, failing fellow creatures without a fear, and are afraid to commit your spiritual interests to the Saviour who laid down His life for you, and of whom it is declared that He is “able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him”?              – Hannah Whitall Smith from “The Christian’s Secret of A Happy Life”

Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him! -Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.” – Kay Arthur

Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him. -Nancy DeMoss

Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your ‘house’ is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in. -Nancy Demoss

Might we never be the helpers of the great hinderer, Satan! Let us ask that the Lord Jesus would so perfectly tune our spirits to the keynote of His exceeding great love, that all our unconscious influence may breathe only of that love, and help all with whom we come in contact to obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Frances Ridley Havergal

“I do — oh, indeed I do — desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I am learning to sec how very weak I am, and how easily Satan can conquer me even when I do strive against him. I do believe with my head that Jesus can, and will give me His grace, and I do not need to fear, yet somehow my heart seems to be hard and cold and not to take it in. Oh, if we were but there — where there is no more sin ! Oh do not forget to pray for me, and don’t ever doubt the love of your unworthy friend.” – Francis Havergal

“Oh, who shall be the first to shine in light unshaded ?” – F. R. H.
Mat 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

They would make the ‘Church ‘ their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they have more devoutness and less devotion, more fear and less love, more feeling of duty than of desire, laying more stress on Phil. ii. 12 than ver. 13, and in practice working upon the intellect and imagination rather than aiming at the heart, skirmishing among the outworks rather than assaulting the citadel. – Francis Havergal

Not always OUT of our troublous times,
And the struggles fierce and grim,
But IN–deeper IN–to our one sure rest,
The place of our peace, in Him.
–Annie Johnson Flint

“Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use.” – Frances Havergal

Ja 1:27 I don’t believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God. -Catherine Booth

“Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day
With its shadow o’er me.”
– Fanny Crosby

Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but “be holy.”… “Everyone who names the name of the Lord” is called to live a holy life! -Nancy DeMoss

“Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt, work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.” – Betty Scott Stam, 20th Ct. Martyr

“He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.” – Susannah Wesley

“So—Let us go on—SEARCHING.” – Isobel Kuhn Job 11:7, Jer. 29:13, John 5:39

Direct me in your service, and I ask no more. I would not choose my position of work, or place of service. Only let me know your will, and I will readily comply”. – Ann Judson

“In all places and at all times, we can have that familiar friendship, we can have Him with us; and there may be through the day a constant interchange of private words, of little offerings, too small to have any name attached to them—by which the bonds of that familiar friendship grow closer and more real, until it comes to that special personal intimacy, which we call sanctity.” Janet Erskine Stuart, 1857-1914

Settle down on this one thing –that Jesus came to save you now, in this life, from the power and dominion of sin, and to make you more than conquerors through His power.       -Hannah Whitall Smith

All the way my Saviour leads me—
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt his tender mercy
Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,
Here by faith in him to dwell—
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well. – Fanny Crosby

“Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” ~Corrie ten Boom

?”Labor to glorify God upon the earth, and soon your little crosses shall be turned into a great, an immortal crown in heaven.” – Anne Dutton

“It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not” – Jackie Pullinger

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have. –Corrie Ten Boom

Pain is never permanent. –Teresa of Avila

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages. –Corrie Ten Boom

Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one’s life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one’s unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.
–St. Teresa of Avila

Don’t assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don’t have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory (1 Cor. 1:26-29).
~Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.” – Teresa of Avila

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Hold o’er my being absolute sway.
Fill with thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me!
– Adelaide Pollard

“Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.”
— Catherine Booth

“Our one great hindrance to fuller blessing is something along with God in our heart” (A. Bonar). Remove every idol from my heart.” – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“He said something you don’t hear much today. You can’t build a big ministry on this verse. The Gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life. And few are those that find it. You will know it by their fruits.” – Joyce Green

“In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word–the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.” – Amy Carmichael

“I would rather be a widow than be married to a coward.” -Sabina Wurmbrand

Keep your eye upon the cross of Christ, and you need not fear to see yourself as you are. – Mary Winslow

“Do not be lazy. Run each day’s race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.” – Basilea Schlink

“The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.” – Basilea Schlink

“Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.” – Basilea Schlink

“Dear blind sister over the sea,
An English heart goes forth to thee.
We are linked by a cable of faith and song,
Flashing bright sympathy swift along:
One in the East and one in the West
Singing for Him whom our souls love best;
“Singing for Jesus,” telling His love
All the way to our home above,
Where the severing sea, with its restless tide,
Never shall hinder and never divide.
Sister! What shall our meeting be,
When our hearts shall sing, and our eyes shall see!”
– Miss Francis Havergal to Miss Fanny Crosby

God, I want to know more of You. I want to know more of Your ways. I want to know anything You want to show me through this. But if I have to live with mystery and unanswered questions the rest of my life, I will still trust You. I will still love You. I will still obey You. -Nancy Leigh DeMoss

?”As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can’t live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to ‘work.’ That’s a childish instinct, to say, ‘Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now’.” -Nancy Leigh DeMoss

No matter! The King who placed us “there” will come and dwell there with us; the hedges are right, or He would soon do away with them. And it does not follow that what seems to hinder our way may not be for its very protection; and as for the pottery, why, that is just exactly what He has seen fit to put into our hands, and therefore it is, for the present, “His work.” –Frances Ridley Havergal

Jesus came!—-And came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit , make me see All His coming means for me, ‘ Take the things of Christ , I pray, Show them to my heart today. – Francis R. Havergal

“Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don’t wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work – to wake people up.”- Catherine Booth

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security. -Elizabeth Elliot

God, You created me woman. You know what You designed for me to be. I don’t want to be a foolish woman. I want to fulfill Your purpose for me. Speak to me through Your Word. Cleanse me through the washing of Your Word, and work in my life so that when I see You face to face, I am not ashamed, but I hear well done, My good and faithful daughter. – Kay Arthur

?”Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom

It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of His providence. – Susannah Spurgeon

God is sovereign, that is He is the boss. He is in control. He is the supreme ruler of heaven and earth for all of eternity. He is Lord. We don’t make Him Lord. He is Lord. And joy comes when we acknowledge that He is Lord; we rest in His Lordship. We trust His sovereignty, and we surrender to it. That means that God has the right to give, and God has the right to take away. -Nancy DeMoss

You will never be more secure, you will never be more safe, and you will never be happier, more satisfied, than when you are trusting and obeying: resting in sovereignty and surrendering to sovereignty. -Nancy DeMoss

A remedy for stress:
S-earch the Word
T-rust God’s heart
R-est on His promises
E-ncourage one another
S-ing His praises
S-eek the Savior

“Every delay in the answers to our prayers is also planned by God to give us something better than what we asked for.” – Annie Poonen

“He is never late.” -Annie Poonen

My whole passion, my whole life, the whole life of our ministry is to establish people in God’s Word. – Kay Arthur

“My thankful love must be displayed, He loved and wooed a beggar maid.” – Hinds Feet on High Places, Hannah Hurnard

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds. – Elizabeth Prentiss

‘One day as a young wife and mo­ther of 37 years of age, I was bu­sy with my reg­u­lar house­hold tasks. Sud­den­ly, I be­came so filled with the sense of near­ness to the Mast­er that, won­der­ing how one could live with­out Him, ei­ther in joy or pain, these words, “I Need Thee Ev­e­ry Hour,” were ush­ered in­to my mind, the thought at once tak­ing full pos­sess­ion of me.” – Annie S. Hawks, author of the hymn “I Need Thee Every Hour’