"To win the trust of these people, we must love them; and to love them, we must see them through the eyes of Christ—in every suffering body, we see a Savior who sacrificed himself for them."
— John Kenneth Mackenzie
Source: Medical Missionaries to China
Trust, love, Christ, body, soul
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"When a person learns to express their deepest prayers in the local language, they are no longer a superior stranger, but a brother who shares their suffering and blessings in the depths of their souls."
"True faith is not merely an abstract theology accepted in the mind, but a vitality that lives out Christ's love in every detail of daily life through the renewal of God's truth. Only when believers' words and deeds exude the fragrance of Christ can the voice of the gospel have the power to move hearts in an unbelieving world."
— John Ross
Source: The Wonderful Story of the Manchurian Revival
Faith, theology, truth, Christ, life, believers, words and deeds, power
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"The path of missionary work is never smooth, just as the Lord's salvation was revealed on the cross at Golgotha. When the door seems blocked, it is a reminder to kneel in prayer and wait for God to open the way."
— Thomas Barclay
Source: Letters from Barclay to the Mission Committee of his Mother Church
Missions, the way, salvation, the cross, God
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"'David, could you cut a piece of skin from my body and put it on the poor child's leg?'—My wife said this to me without the slightest hesitation. In that moment, I saw how the true light of Christ dispelled the gloom and despair in the ward."