08/01 金言雋語2

  • 在一粒沙裡能明白整個世界,在一朵野花裡能明白天堂;在手掌裡能握住無限,在一小時裡能握住永恆。(布雷克的詩句,錄自《家住美福鎮》P.358)
  • 文學的妙處正在於它無用!(作家朱光潛)
  • 就我個人來說,我常預備好要學習,雖然我並不常喜歡接受人的教導。(邱吉爾)Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.(Winston Churchill,)
  • 發生在一個人身上最糟糕的事,就是他在預備好之前就成功了。(鍾馬田)The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.(Martin Lloyd Jones)
  • 當你被仇敵的箭射中時,要記得那是神的旨意所允許的;不要抵擋它,免得你抵擋了神的恩典與旨意。Remember that by the time the arrows of the enemy strike you, they have come under the permissive will of God. Do not resist or you may be resisting God’s grace and God’s will.
  • 如果我知道自己只剩二十五年的壽命,我會用二十年來預備自己。(司布真)If I knew I would have twenty-five years left to live, I would spend twenty of them in preparation.(C.H.Spurgeon)
  • 神的時候總是不會太晚,也不會太早,祂的時候總是剛剛好的。God is never too late, never too early; He is always just on time.(C.B.Fugget)

 

07/18 金言雋語1

  • 把最重要的事放在最重要的位置,結果次重要的事也一起得著;把次重要的事放在最高的位置,結果你兩樣都得不著。(魯益師)Put first things first, and we get second things; put second things first, and we lose both first and second things.
  • 過去發生的每件事情的後果,或好或壞,我們都得自行承擔;我們因過去的每一件惡行,自食其果。(艾略特T. S. Eliot)
  • 打開你那厚厚的寶貝窗簾吧,你還不知道外面的天已經發亮了!(索忍尼津)
  • 最富有的人,是那種在最便宜的事上,還能找到樂趣的人。(美國思想家亨利.梭羅)That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
  • 如果你吃麵包時,同時也想吃奶油與蜂蜜的話,你就必須進入那有巨人的地方!(Billy Sunday)
  • 你是因太累而不能跑呢?還是因太怕而不敢休息呢?

 

07/04 人

  • 你知道是什麼使人成為受苦最多的受造物嗎?是因為他一腳踏在有限上,另一腳踏在無限上,而他在兩個世界間被撕扯著。Do you know what makes man the most suffering of all creatures? It is that he has one foot in the finite and the other in the infinite, and that he is torn between two worlds.
  • 人是一種很有才能的受造物,弄出了三千兩百六十萬條律法,卻至今尚未在遵行十誡上有進展。Man is an able creature, but he has made 32,600,000 laws and hasn’t yet improved on the Ten Commandments.
  • 人是塵土所造的動物,卻配得上天國。(聖奧古斯丁) [Man is] An earthly animal, but worthy of Heaven. (St. Augustine: The City of God)
  • 人是上帝的受造物,其他每一件事物都是他的育嬰房或是保姆。(亨利.畢屈)Man is God’s creation. Everything else is the nursery and nurse of man. (Henry Ward Beecher)
  • 神造人是要他們成為某一種樣式,而非只要他們擁有某些東西。God made man to be somebody – not just to have things.
  • 人太尊貴而不應服事任何別的,只應當服事上帝。Man is too noble to serve anyone but God. (Cardinal Wyszynski)
  • 神阿!你為你自己造了我們,除非我們的心安息於你,否則它就沒有安息。(聖奧古斯丁)Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee. (St. Augustine)

 

6/20 《光》之三

  • 黑暗不能逐出黑暗,只有光能;仇恨不能逐出仇恨,只有愛能(金恩博士)。Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  • 如果整個宇宙都是無意義的,我們就絕無法察覺它是無意義的;就像倘若宇宙並無光存在,受造物也就沒有眼睛,我們也絕無法知道宇宙是黑暗的,黑暗變成沒有意義了。(魯益師)If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.(C.S.Lewis)
  • 光,是神的長女。Light, God's eldest daughter...(Thomas Fuller)
  • 我們都行走在黑暗中,每一個人都必須學習打開他的燈,照出光來。(南丁格爾)We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.(Earl Nightingale)
  • 不要一直擔憂那些可能不會發生的事,只要保守自己在陽光底下。(便雅憫.富蘭克林)Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.(Benjamin Franklin)
  • 在燈光下的真理,在陽光下不見得仍是真理。What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.(Joseph Joubert)
  • 信心如同小鳥,在仍舊是暗夜時,感覺到光,並開始歌唱。(泰戈爾)Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.(Rabindranath Tagore)

 

06/06 《光》之二

  • 英雄會在世上點燃偉大火炬,將暗街照亮,使人得以看見;聖徒則走在世界的暗街上,他自己就是光。The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.(Felix Adler)
  • 無論你去哪兒,無論天氣如何,總要帶著你自己的陽光。Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.(Anthony J. D'Angelo)
  • 當光忽然照射時,眩目傷人,甚至幾乎使我們失明;但不久這些感覺就會逝去,它將成為我們能存在其中惟一的因素。Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.(Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare)
  • 也許有一天,內在之光將從我們裡面照射出來,那時我們將不再需要別的光了。(歌德)Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
  • 愛不是一種安慰,它是光。(尼采)Love is not consolation. It is light.(Friedrich Nietzsche)
  • 在信心裡,有足夠的光賜給那些願意相信的人,也有足夠的陰影來使那些不信的人變成失明。(巴斯葛)In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.(Blaise Pascal)
  • 人應該學習去察驗並護衛,那從他裡面閃亮在他心思裡的光線。(愛默生)A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

05/23 《光》之一

  • 是誰比較愚昧呢?一個怕黑暗的小孩,還是一個怕光明的大人?Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? (Maurice Freehill)
  • 點亮一隻蠟燭,勝過詛咒黑暗。(中國諺語)Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
  • 你無法舉著火炬去照亮別人的路徑,除非你先照亮自己的路徑。We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.(Ben Sweetland)
  • 將你的臉轉向太陽,陰影就會落在你身後。Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.(Maori Proverb)
  • 一個敏銳的人會記得,他的視力(眼光)會受兩種情況所攪擾:一個是從明處走進暗處,另一個是從暗處走進明處。他也會知道,同樣的事也會發生在靈魂身上。(柏拉圖)A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.(Plato)
  • 當你裡頭擁有光時,就會在外面看見光。When you possess light within, you see it externally. (Anais Nin)
  • 如果你將光還給太陽,你將一無所有。You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.(Antonio Porchia)
  • 我愛光,因為它指引我的路;但我忍受黑暗,因為它使我看見晨星。晨星是照亮永恆的街燈。(Og Mandino)

 

05/09 嚴厲與溫和

當年神在西奈山頒布十誡律法時,在火中、雲中、幽暗中,以及雷轟、閃電、角聲中,神大聲曉喻以色列百姓;但今天,基督的救恩是在釘十字架的軟弱、墳墓的安靜,以及神羔羊的柔順中成全的,卻比律法的頒布更加可畏。

如果在神以溫柔伸出拯救的手時,我們不謙卑領受,有一天神顯出祂的榮耀威嚴而來時,我們當如何行呢?今天主以溫柔對待我們,父母對兒女、上司對下屬也該如此;以溫柔和恩慈待人,不要常藉著疾言厲色來使人懾服,而是以溫柔與恩慈來使人折服。

聖經裡所羅門王說:柔和的舌頭能折斷骨頭。大衛對神說:你的溫和使我為大。

 

 

04/25 先知與基督

神的兒子到世上來的時候,不是以外貌表現尊貴榮耀;事實上基督道成肉身時,先知說祂無佳形美容,也無美貌使我們羨慕祂。神想要我們不用肉體形質,不用外貌來看事物,而是用神永恆的眼光來看。

眾先知多方地講,描述這一面、那一面,但基督來到時,才是完滿實體。眾先知一點一點地講,逐步拼湊成一幅基督畫像;但基督來到,也就是聖誕節的故事,讓我們一舉認識祂、得著祂,然後逐日在祂裡面更認識祂。

先知的啟示像是逐漸累積寶物,基督來到則使我們進入寶庫中,逐日探索、發現、享受已擁有之寶藏。

 

 

04/11 天使與基督

人總是注目可見事物,期待短期獲利;但神一向慢條斯理,氣定神閒地做事,有時甚至看起來安靜著,沒在做什麼工似的。祂用時間來讓我們學習永恆時空的事。

天使是聖經舊約時代最突出、最吸引目光的人物,每次有天使顯現,都叫人轉頭注目,而且留意到神要做什麼奇妙偉大的事。天使顯然可以一忽兒讓人看到他,一忽兒又消失不見;用今天的科學概念來思考,或許天使活在更高維的時空。神也是能自由往來各個時空界面。

每當天使顯現時,人都會感受到尊貴、威嚴、能力、美麗、榮耀,如同神一般。他們是神的使者,但聖經希伯來書的作者說,神子耶穌基督所承受的名,遠比天使更尊貴。

 

 

03/28 我歌頌你

跟您分享一首詩歌:《I Sing of Thee》
我歌頌你 尊貴的主 藉你恩典 把我救贖
你救贖我 代價極重 我與天使 向你歌頌
我歌頌你 尊貴的救主 用我口舌 向你謳歌
我歌頌你 永遠歌頌你 因你喜樂 已充滿我

我歌頌你 縱淚滿襟 憂傷來臨 仍覺歡心
因我回想 救主恩典 使我歌唱 快樂無邊
我歌頌你 尊貴的救主 用我口舌 向你謳歌
我歌頌你 永遠歌頌你 因你喜樂 已充滿我

我歌頌你 直到離世 不論在家 海洋陸地
或經死亡 進入永生 永永遠遠 我歌頌你
我歌頌你 尊貴的救主 用我口舌 向你謳歌
我歌頌你 永遠歌頌你 因你喜樂 已充滿我

 

 

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