神啊！為新的一年感謝你，
願我家中每一位都願意有個新鮮、更新的開始；
我們知道你總是預備好要饒恕我們，
請幫助我們也願意饒恕我們自己，並且彼此饒恕。
God, thank you for a new year.
May everyone in our family
be willing to begin anew with a clean slate.
We know that you are always ready to forgive us.
Help us to be willing to forgive ourselves
and to forgive one another.

華德．迪斯尼說：「我們因著好奇繼續前行，開啟新的門，做出新的事；好奇，驅使我們踏上新的路徑。」

印度教上師Sai Baba說：「不要被你所看見四周的事物誤導了，也不要太受它們影響；你所生活的世界是幻覺與假象的遊樂場，充斥著虛假的路徑、虛假的價值觀、虛假的理想，但你不屬於那個世界。」

神啊！請賜給我平靜沉穩的心來接受我不能改變的事，賜我勇氣來改變我能改變的事，並賜我智慧來分辨這二者。
God grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change; COURAGE to change the things I can; and the WISDOM to know the difference. （Reinhold Niebuhr）

每次只管一天地過生活，儘情享受當下這一刻。視苦難為通往平安之必經途徑。
效法耶穌不照自己的意願，乃看清這罪惡世界的真相。
信靠你會將萬事安排妥當，只要我降服於你的旨意；
好使我能適度快樂地度過今生，而在來世與你同享無上福樂。阿們。
Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right, If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
（Reinhold Niebuhr）

• 神啊！你為你自己造了我們，除非我們的心安息在你裡面，否則它就沒有安息。（聖奧古斯丁）
• 天父，當我們的心被你的思想喚醒時，不要讓它醒來像一隻驚恐的小鳥，倉皇飛竄；而像一個剛睡醒的小孩，帶著屬天的微笑。（祈克果）
• 創造的主，求你使我雖棲身工廠、書房或辦公室，不遺忘那碧綠的郊野，而迷戀城市的浮囂繁華。求你使我當晨光浮現、萬籟唱和時，不幽居鬱悶之中，面現瘁容。求你使我能因從你領受的正氣，而淬勵奮發，不在眾生中迷糊渡日，茍且偷安。（約翰．貝利）

願你的榮光顯現在我裡面，並藉著我發出光來；使得我所接觸的人，在我身上感受到你的同在。讓他們因此往上看，不再是看到我，而是看見耶穌。
請留在我身邊，與我同在，這樣，我將開始像你一樣發光，從而成為他人的光。
Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Thy presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus. Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.（德蕾莎修女Mother Teresa）

主啊！當我的心靈被你觸動，默想你說不盡的恩慈，我肉體的重擔就減輕，思想的困擾就停止，短暫屬世的壓力也更輕省。我的心靈要有翅膀，無厭倦地向上飛翔，直達你恩惠的寶座。（聖奧古斯丁）

• 聖誕節的故事就是：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）
• 當基督進入我們的世界時，祂不是要照亮我們的12月，乃是要改變我們的生命。When Christ entered our world, he didn't come to brighten our Decembers, but to transform our lives.（Rich Miller）
• 基督生在第一世紀，但祂屬於每一世代；祂生為猶太人，卻屬於每一種族；祂生在伯利恆，但屬於所有國家。Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.（George W. Truett）
• 降生的這位嬰孩基督，是萬有的主；所以對祂而言，沒有宮殿會顯得太大，也沒有茅屋會顯得太小。For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.（Phillips Brooks）
• 聖誕節的信息就是：我們永不致孤寂。This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.（Taylor Caldwell）
• 基督即使生在伯利恆一千次，如果祂沒有生在你裡面，你的靈魂仍是孤寂絕望的。Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, if He is not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn.（Angelus Silesius）

• 神掌權，所以我能凡事謝恩；不是環境使我感恩，而是因著那位主導並掌管環境的主。God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.（Kay Arthur）
• 明確地為所得恩慈憐憫而感恩，是在神的聖靈裡大能的禱告，它如何與神一同得勝是無以言喻的。（本仁約翰）A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.（John Bunyan）
• 感恩在神眼中是寶貴的祭物，是我們中間最貧窮的人也能獻上的祭；獻上感恩不會使我們變得更窮，而是變得更富足。（陶恕）Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.（A.W. Tozer）
• 我們應該為我們每一命運感恩，若是好運，我們感恩是因為它好；若是壞運，我們感恩是因它在我們裡面生出忍耐、謙卑，使我們輕看今世，並帶來永恆家鄉的盼望。（魯益師）We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.（C.S. Lewis）

• 感恩不僅是最大的美德，其他美德也由它而生。（西塞羅）Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others.（Marcus Tullius Cicero）
• 感恩，就是將記憶儲存在心裡，而不只存在頭腦裡。Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.（Lionel Hampton）
• 你夜間祈禱時，要跪在感恩的枕頭上。Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.（Maya Angelou）
• 當你能說「我為那個經驗感謝你（神）」時，那就是真實的饒恕了。True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.（Oprah Winfrey）
• 我心存感恩，所以我很快樂；我選擇感恩，這樣的感恩使我快樂。I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.（Will Arnett）
• 說出感恩的話是謙恭而愉悅的，以行動表達感恩是慷慨而尊貴的，但活在感恩中的人將觸摸到天堂。To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.（Johannes A. Gaertner）
• 為芝麻小事感恩，你將找到豐盛寶藏！Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.（Hausa Proverb）
• 你若想翻轉你的生命，試試看去感恩；感恩將強有力地改變你的生命。If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.（Gerald Good）
• 只有藉著感恩，生命才會變得豐盛！（潘霍華）It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!（Dietrich Bonhoeffer）

• 我不喜歡那些高言大論、詞藻華麗，卻將罪人的良心撫平的傳道人。（Rowland Hill）I don’t like those mighty fine preachers who round of their sentences so beautifully that they are sure to roll off the sinner’s conscience.
• 今天所需要的傳道人，必須有獅子的心、河馬的皮、獵狗的敏捷、驢子的耐心、象的智慧、螞蟻的殷勤，並像貓一樣有許多條性命！（Edgar Dewitt Jones）The preacher for this day must have the heart of a lion, the skin of a hippopotamus, the agility of a greyhound, the patience of a donkey, the wisdom of an elephant, the industry of an ant, and as many lives as a cat.
• 傳道人應該有簡單地、易明地教導那些沒有讀過書之人的才能，因為教導比訓誡更重要。（馬丁路德Martin Luther）A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply, roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
• 當我講道時，我不太理那些博士與作官的，在我的會眾中這種人超過四十位；我將我所有的眼目都放在那些女僕與孩子身上，如果那些有學問的人不高興聽這樣的道，那麼，門是開著的！（馬丁路德Martin Luther）When I preach I regard neither doctors nor magistrates, of whom I have above forty in the congregation; I have all my eyes on the servant maids and on the children. And if the learned men are not well pleased with what they hear, well, the door is open.
• 我講道的要旨是打碎剛硬的心，並醫治破碎的心。（約翰．牛頓John Newton）My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

• 當我形容一個傳道人時，我盼望他是單純、真誠、認真，在道理上無可指摘，用的話語是平易近人的，態度安祥，…為有罪的人作神恩典的使者。（William Cowper）Would I describe a preacher,…I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, and plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, and natural in gesture; much impress’d himself, as conscious of his awful charge, and anxious mainly that the flock he feeds may feel it too, affectionate in look, and tender in address, as well becomes a messenger of grace to guilty men.
• 當我們在講道上有虧欠時，並不都會徒然；在陳腐的禱告與講章裡頭隱藏著一個詩意的真理：雖然是一篇愚蠢的道，卻可能被人以智慧來聆聽。（愛默生Ralph Waldo Emerson美國詩人1803~1882）When we preach unworthily it is not always quite in vain. There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons, and though foolishly spoken, they may be wisely heard.
• 用這個來試驗一個傳道人：當會眾散會時說的不是「多麼棒的一篇道」，而是「我現在要去做…」（St. Frances de Sales）The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not what a lovely sermon, but, I will do something!
• 壞傳道人將魔鬼帶到教會來。（Thomas Fuller）Bad priests bring the devil into the church.
• 最難駕馭的學生，會成為最敬虔的傳道人。（德國諺語）The unruliest students make the most pious preachers.

• 一位有名的傳道人承認說：「當我沒東西講時，我常開始在講台上吼叫！」A popular preacher once said of his pulpit efforts, “I always roar when I have nothing to say.”
• 一個傳道人若想討每個人喜歡，必定徒然；因為無論你站著面對哪個方向，必有一半的世人是在你背後！It is in vain for the preacher to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one-half of the world.
• 我講道時，總是如同最後一次講道，如同一個將死的人對一群將死的人說話。（Richard Baxter）I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
• 講道是從一個人的人格所發出來的真理。（Phillips Brooks）Preaching is truth through personality.
• 愛講道是一回事，愛你講道的對象完全是另一回事。（Richard Cecil）To love to preach is one thing－to love those to whom we preach, quite another.
• 我喜歡聚會前教堂的安靜，過於聽任何講道。（愛默生Ralph Waldo Emerson美國詩人1803~1882）I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
• 我尊崇那些心是溫暖的，手是清潔的，他的教導與生命是一致的，生命透亮地呈現在世人眼前的傳道人，顯明他在神聖的事上是誠實的。（William Cowper）I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.