"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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"Prayer is, as it were, a breathing in of the Holy Spirit, and God so pours His Holy Spirit into the life of the prayerful that they become "living souls" (Gen. ii.7; John xx.22). They will never die, for the Holy Spirit pours Himself by means of prayer into their spiritual lungs, and fills their spirits with health and vigour and everlasting life."
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Source: At the Master's Feet, III "Prayer", I.2 (tr. Arthur Parker)
Prayer, Breath, Soul
Views: 436
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
— C.S. Lewis
Source: "Christian Apologetics," in God in the Dock
Christ, important
Views: 430
"God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in. … We have to get into the habit of hearkening to God about everything, to form the habit of finding out what God says. If when a crisis comes, we instinctively turn to God, we know that the habit has been formed."
— Oswald Chambers
Source: My Utmost for His Highest, May 10, "Take the Initiative"
"Whenever I read the beautiful parable of the prodigal son, I am inclined to say to Jesus, "O my Love and my All, You have understated the case!""
— John C.H. Wu
Source: Beyond East and West (1951)
Home, law, philosophy, father
Views: 432
"I defy the Pope and all his laws. … If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost."
— William Tyndale
Source: as reported in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (1563), p. 570