Amy Carmichael and “Calvary Love”

Referring to her ministry as a mother of Indian orphans, Amy Carmichael said:

“If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider “not spiritual work” I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and the exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

(from Elizabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die [Fleming H. Revell, 1987] pg. 183)