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We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

Amy Carmichael

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Amy Carmichael
Age: 83 †
Born: 1867
Born: December 16
Died: 1951
Died: January 18
Author
Missionary
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Downshire
Amy Beatrice Carmichael
Victory
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Winning
Hours
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Sunset
Celebrate
Eternity

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Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
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Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.
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The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.
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Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.
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If I say, Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive, as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
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All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
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Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
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We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father?
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