If I go easy on myself and let myself slide comfortably into the vice of self-pity and self-satisfaction; if I do not try, through the grace of God, to summon strength, then I know nothing at all about the love of the cross.

— Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), Missionarin

Topics: Temptation & Struggle, Discipleship

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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