"We should make this clear to believers from the very beginning of our missionary work: every believer is a messenger of God's Kingdom. The goal of missionaries should not be to build a "greenhouse plant" that is forever dependent on the mother church, but to cultivate a towering tree that can take root in the local soil and stand alone in the local climate."
"Missionary work without prayer is weak and ineffective, but prayer without action is hypocritical. We must kneel down to seek God's power, and then set our feet firmly on the ground to reach those lost souls."
— Griffith John
Source: On the Power of Chinese Missionaries
Prayer, mission, action, hypocrisy
Views: 58
"The Creator has its own principles and uses for all things. The purpose of investigating things is not merely to observe their physical beauty, but to trace their origins and deduce the unknown from the known, so that the principles of the world have nowhere to hide. This is the essence of true learning."
— D. J. Macgowan
Source: The Complete Book of Natural History
Creation, all things, investigation of things
Views: 72
"If we only give them the gospel without caring about their poverty and opium addiction, our gospel is hypocritical; but if we only give them social reform without Christ, our help is short-lived."
— David Hill
Source: David Hill: The Apostle of the Chinese
Gospel, poverty, opium, society, Christ
Views: 41
"Christianity rejects the brutal division of humanity into soul and body, or life into material and spiritual. It is impossible to effectively address one type of suffering while simultaneously ignoring the other. Christ touches the body by healing the soul and demonstrates moral restoration by alleviating physical pain."
— James Laidlaw Maxwell
Source: A Collection Commemorating the Centenary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
Soul, body, pain, healing
Views: 34
"Rather burn out than rust out"
— George Leslie Mackay
Source: "Formosa Chronicles: Miscellaneous Notes on Missionary Work in Taiwan"