"Human life is like a traveler temporarily staying at an inn, soon to embark on another journey. Worldly wealth, glory, palaces, and status are all like fleeting clouds in the sky or bubbles on the water, vanishing in an instant. Only by accumulating virtue and doing good deeds, and obeying God's commandments, can one's merits enter the eternal heavenly realm with one's soul—this is true wealth."
— Ferdinand Verbiest
Source: Introduction to the Doctrine of the Meaning: Before and After Life
Doing good, eternity, wealth, and the human world.
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"They (the ancients) called this supreme and divine being 'Heaven' or 'God,' meaning the sovereign, the divine reason, the creator and protector of all things."
"In those ancient Eastern texts, we can indeed see faint glimmers of natural reason concerning the Creator. However, the light of nature can never replace the transcendent revelation from the cross. If we equate the moral doctrines of philosophers with the grace of the Gospels, then Christ's sacrifice loses its unique, redemptive, ultimate value. Faith requires us to submit to God's revelation, not to the wisdom of the ancients."
— Claude de Visdelou
Source: A Study of the Biography of Confucius and the Rites of the Confucian Temple
"Often, Christianity is merely a thin, elegant sheet, rigidly pasted onto the surface of people's lives. They outwardly don the shell of religion, attempting to convince themselves and others that they are saved, but inwardly they never truly open themselves to Christ, nor truly forsake their hidden sins. The revival of the Holy Spirit must do one thing—first, utterly destroy the false sense of security within church members, tearing away the various 'patches' they use to conceal themselves, leaving sin nowhere to hide before God's holy law."
— Marie Monsen
Source: The Great Rejuvenation of China
Religion, Christianity, salvation, hidden sin, Holy Spirit, revival, sin, holiness
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"Ancient Chinese people viewed the human body as a microcosm, emphasizing the unity of heaven and humanity and the harmony of yin and yang; while our beliefs tell us that the human body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. At their deepest level, these two are interconnected—health is not only the absence of physical disease, but also the complete harmony of the soul with the divine order."
— Edward Hicks Hume
Source: Taoist Medicine: The Chinese Approach to Medicine
Universe, Unity, Yin and Yang, Holy Spirit, Soul
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"The Chinese church must not merely be a vessel for receiving grace, but also a conduit from which rivers of living water flow. God saves you not so that you may wait in comfort in your locality for heaven, but so that you may undertake the mission of spreading the gospel throughout Jerusalem, all of Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Millions of souls in Southeast Asia and the Far East await the footsteps of Chinese missionaries."