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If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth) if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

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Amy Carmichael
Age: 83 †
Born: 1867
Born: December 16
Died: 1951
Died: January 18
Author
Missionary
Writer
Downshire
Amy Beatrice Carmichael
Nothing
Second
First
Honest
Take
Happiness
Love
Making
Unworthiness
Place
Fuss
Cannot
Calvary
Firsts
Twentieth
Without
Humility

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