Professing To Be Strangers and Pilgrims

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

― Amy Carmichael (16 December 1867 – 18 January 1951, Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur, serving in India for 55 years without furlough, writing many books about the missionary work there.