I Didn't Sleep A Wink Last Night

The television is a bad friend for wee hours and is best avoided.

(Amy Carmichael, in Journey by David Jeremiah, 30 March)

4 April 2013

This Deary Seashore

I stand, on this dreary seashore of my life, looking over this dreary backwash bay. Nothing invigorating, or inspiring. Nothing ... to inspire anyone. (Amy Carmichael in A Gentle Spirit, 3 November) 3 November 2012

Happiness

One of the great secrets of happiness is to think of happy things. There were many unhappy things in [ancient] Philippi, things false, dishonorable, unjust, impure, hideous and of very bad report; the air of Philippi was darkened by these things.  The Christians of that town might easily have had their lives stained by continually letting their thoughts dwell on what they could not help seeing and hearing and feeling, what evil they must often have met and fought in their striving together for the faith of the gospel. (Amy Carmichael, in A Gentle Spirit, 25 October) 26 October 2012