Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace… If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you know what His will is.

— Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), Missionarin

Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael war eine nordirische protestantische Missionarin und Autorin, die von 1895 bis zu ihrem Tod in Südindien wirkte. Bekannt wurde sie durch die Rettung zahlreicher Kinder vor ritueller Tempelprostitution und die Gründung der Dohnavur Fellowship, wobei ihr autoritärer Führungsstil und die strenge Abschottung der Gemeinschaft missionsgeschichtlich kritisiert werden. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet sie vor allem als Beispiel praktischer Nächstenliebe sowie durch geistliche Texte über Hingabe, Gebet und radikale Nachfolge.

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