"It [Christianity] is more native to me than the Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in whose milieu I was born. I am grateful to them, because they have served as pedagogues to lead me to Christ. Christ constitutes the unity of my life. It is thanks to this unity that I can rejoice in being born yellow and educated white."
— John C.H. Wu
Source: Beyond East and West (1951)
Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism
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"As this was the first time I had met a man of his stamp, I was dumb, and felt that his religious experience was not only much earlier than mine, but possessed a depth which astonished me. … I never saw him again, but have always felt that he, if not a Christian, was at any rate not far from the Kingdom of God."
— Timothy Richard
Source: Timothy Richard, Forty-Five Years in China: Reminiscences (1916), ch. II “Early Years in China”, §12 “Visit to Salt Manufacturer, perhaps a Lost Nestorian”, pp. 48–49