“The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.”

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”

“If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?”

“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”

“The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.”

“Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.”