"Fellow workers, don't think our work is preaching. Our most essential and important task is kneeling down. Faith is nothing other than kneeling down and watching God work. Without persistent prayer, everything we say is just dust floating in the air, devoid of any life force."
"All genuine scientific research and discoveries ultimately point to the supreme ruler who created the universe; truth never contradicts itself. Nature reveals God's powerful hand, while the Bible reveals His profound grace of redemption for mankind."
— Joseph Edkins
Source: Preface to *Western Learning Enlightenment* and Discourse on Scientific Ethics (1898)
"Do not reach out to anyone, nor hint at your needs; our God is a living God, and since He has sent you out, He will take full responsibility for you at the most precise time with His immeasurable abundance."
— Leland Wang
Source: The Testimony of Wang Zai
Need, dispatch, abundant, time, responsible
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"The greatest danger to the church has never come from external persecution and opposition, but from internal secularization and spiritual apathy. When Christians begin to crave worldly comforts and imitate worldly patterns, losing their witness of self-denial, holiness, and bearing the cross, the church loses its salty flavor and becomes nothing more than an empty shell."
"When mortals encounter hardship, suffering, or illness, they should not blame fate or others. They should know that this is God's great healer, who uses this bitter cup to heal the deep-seated ailments of our souls, cut off the roots of pride, and draw us closer to the cross."
"The persecutions and hardships of the world are all fires used by God to refine people's hearts. If we truly have the fire of love for the Lord in our hearts, then the greater the storms, the deeper the roots of our faith will grow; the hardships on earth will only reveal the reality of our hope in heaven."
— Niccolò Longobardo
Source: The Right Path of the Soul
Persecution, hardship, God, heart, faith, truth
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