03/16 像神4
- 最初人是按神形象造的,但他像神的這份產業卻被偷走了。人有神的形象,他的生命完全汲取自神裡面的源頭;但有神形象的人,卻忘記了他的源頭,而使自己成為自己的創造者和審判官。(潘霍華)Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- 世上並沒有普通的凡人,你談話的對象從來不是「只不過必死、必朽壞的人」;邦國、文化、藝術、文明才是必朽壞的,它們的生命與我們的生命相比,不過如蚊蚋。我們平常跟他開玩笑、一起工作、與他結婚、厲聲斥責、剝削的對象,都是不朽的。(魯益師)There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.(C. S. Lewis)
- 我們所以會有這樣的意識,知道死亡並非終結,也相信天堂是存在的,都是因為我們是按著神的形象受造的。(葛培理)The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.(Billy Graham)
- 基督是神最完美的形象,我們也在知識、純淨、公義和真實的聖潔上,漸漸被更新成神的形象。(約翰.加爾文)Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.(John Calvin)
- 祂成為我們的樣子,好使我們成為祂的樣子。(亞他拿修)He became what we are that he might make us what he is.(St.Athanasius)