"Faith is not for proving ourselves right, but for confessing that we need God."
— IntoOne
Source: IntoOne meditation
Faith, God
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis
Source: "Is Theology Poetry?" in The Weight of Glory
Faith, Sun, Seeing
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"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
— Augustine
Source: Sermons 43
Faith, Understanding
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"In his last years Francis Huberty James taught at the Imperial University in Peking; on 14 December 1898 he read a paper on Chinese Literature before the Royal Asiatic Society, arguing that it was "deserving of study" and that "when it is better known it will be more highly esteemed." On the afternoon of 20 June 1900, as the Boxers besieged the legations, he was shot dead crossing the bridge on his way back from the palace of a Mongol prince across the canal. W. A. P. Martin recorded that he and Dr. Morrison of the Times had there made arrangements for the shelter of native Christians: "He, too, sacrificed his life in a noble cause.""
— W. A. P. Martin; F. Huberty James
Source: W. A. P. Martin, The Siege in Peking (1900), pp. 81-82; F. Huberty James, Chinese Literature (Shanghai)
Faith, science, nature, law, wisdom, investigation of things
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"Carl Frederick Kupfer (1852–1925) was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States with his parents as a child. In 1881 the Methodist Episcopal Church sent him to Jiujiang (Kiukiang), Jiangxi, as principal of its school there, and he later also preached in Zhenjiang and Nanjing. When the school was renamed William Nast College in 1901, he again became its president. He died in a Hankou hospital in 1925 and was buried in Jiujiang."
— Wikipedia (Chinese), "Carl Frederick Kupfer"
Source: zh.wikipedia.org, "库思非" (citing Who's Who in American Methodism, 1916, et al.)
Faith, doctrine, ritual, love, service
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"On Sunday, the 24th, the day proclaimed for the burning, we went to church as usual, arranging that horses should await us in the compound for escape in case of need. ... Over four hundred Christians gathered, and earnest were the prayers that went up for strength, guidance, and protection. The last hymn sung was "Soldiers of the Lord, arise!" ... Then the congregation quietly dispersed, to meet again no more for months, and then but a broken fragment."
— Dugald Christie
Source: Thirty Years in Moukden, 1883–1913 (1914), ch. "The Boxer Madness, 1900," p. 138