"Throughout the long span of sixty years, I often felt like a traveler carrying a lamp in the dark. I knew that Western science and law alone could not fundamentally change this great nation; only when the compassionate and truthful love of Christ touched the hearts of the Chinese people would this ancient empire truly complete its remarkable spiritual transformation that would attract worldwide attention."
— W.A.P. Martin
Source: Memories of My Sixty Years
Darkness, Science, Law, Nation, Truth
Views: 131
"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: 119
"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: 125
"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."
"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: 96
"Rather burn out than rust out"
— George Leslie Mackay
Source: "Formosa Chronicles: Miscellaneous Notes on Missionary Work in Taiwan"