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Christian holiness is above all the heathen virtue, of a more bright and pure nature, more serene, calm, peaceful, and delightsome. What a sweet calmness, what a calm ecstasy, does it bring to the soul! Of what a meek & humble nature is true holiness; how peaceful & quiet. How it changes the soul, and makes it more pure, more bright, and more excellent than other beings. ~ Jonathan Edwards
The Lord delivered us on the last day. Not 2nd or 3rd last day. You know what that means? He did that with such purpose, not to just to test our faith. But to show us that He doesn't need 365 days, He can do everything that has to be done at the momemts time.
《God's Extraordinary Provision for HeartCry - Paul Washer》
It is impossible to worship without sacrifice, the giving of our best.
It is impossible to worship God with a wrong motive.
It is impossible to worship God without instruction in the truth.
It is impossible to worship God without obedience.
Ravi Zacharias
在患難中妻子陪伴我，但時機漸好時，她卻病逝了。《約翰加爾文》
加爾文的批評者在作者Parker帕爾克的眼裡並不高明：加爾文是一位追隨上帝呼召的人文學者，風流瀟灑，交遊廣闊。他原本是天才耀眼的少年英雄，卻成為背負教會重擔的改革者。只有不顧歷史事實的人，才會輕易稱呼他為「日內瓦暴君」。加爾文衝動易怒，卻經常向人道歉。他原本逍遙四海，浮沈學界，卻在比他更衝動的朋友咒詛裡，聽到天上來的召喚，留在日內瓦參與改革至死不渝。
帕爾克T.H.L Parker著，王怡方．林鴻信譯，《加爾文傳 John Calvin-A Biography》，台北：禮記，2001。
敵人的稱讚是最真實的。宗教改革家加爾文，在日內瓦逝世，當時的教皇是庇烏士四世（Pius IV, 在位1559-1565）。他當然不會哀悼，卻真誠的說：“那持異端者〔加爾文〕的能力，在於金錢對他全無吸引力。如果我有些這樣的僕人，我的疆域必然會擴展，從這海到那海。”
Isn't sad when love becomes common? I hate that. I just wanna end my life loving my wife like I suppose to be. But when love becomes so common, it's so wrong.《Clothed With Power From On High - Paul Washer》
當靈魂往後看的時候，記憶是工具。
當靈魂往前看的時候，盼望是工具。
《永恆的本質、奧古斯丁》
Most people are live is because air is free.《 Jesus Christ is Everything - Paul Washer 》
當亞歷山大大地審判被捕的強盜，問他為何膽敢使海上不安呢？強盜反問：「你為何使全地不安呢？當我用一隻小船去作時，人稱我為強盜，而你帶著大批戰艦去作時，人卻叫你國王！」《奧古斯丁、上帝之城》
我不知道為何如此，一旦人想要的事物受到禁止時，它就變得更加令人喜悅。《奧古斯丁、論精意和字句》
Knowledge may become good or ill according to the use which is made of it.《Knowledge. Worship. Gratitude.- C. H. SPURGEON》
Anguish means extreme pain and distress. The emotion so stirred that it becames painfull. Acute deeply felt inner pain because of conditions about you, in you, or around you. Anguish. Deep, pain. Deep sorrow. Agony of God's heart.《 A Call to Anguish - David Wilkerson 》
To read Holy Write without faith in Christ is to walk in darkness.- Martin Luther
Husband, listsen to me. Your wife lives in a horrible world, images of woman are put on the TV and magazines that there are not realistic. And sometimes your wife compare herself to those things and she is not equal. The world tell her she must be super model, to be able to have romance. Do you see how horrible that is? 《The Purpose of Marriage - Paul Washer》
I divide each commandment into four parts, thereby fashioning a garland of four strands... I think of each commandment as, first, instruction, which is really what it's intended to be & consider what the Lord God demands of me so earnestly. Second, I turn it into a thanksgiving; third, a confession; & fourth, a prayer. - Martin Luther
"To grasp these things intellectually is one thing, for them to become realities in our life is another." - Paul Washer
"I have nothing else to rely upon but the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived, died, was buried, rose again, went to heaven, and still lives and pleads for sinners at the right hand of God." - C. Spurgeon
Don't judge me, you don't know me really. Ok, let me know you in secret.《The Greatest Words in All of Scripture - Paul Washer 》
有人得罪我，我就像一隻綿羊；若有人得罪神，我就像一隻猛獅。─ 加爾文
「當我在聖經裡讀到新約時代的教會時，他們並沒有華麗的教堂，他們並沒有很多錢。他們並沒有很多組織，他們也沒有上電視跟人要錢。但我告訴你他們做了什麼：他們把世界翻轉了過來。 - 雷歐納牧師(Rev. Leonard Ravenhill)
"We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about." ~R.C. Sproul
Leonard Ravenhill： There should be a birth chamber in every church; (it) should be a room for travail.
Thus there can be no doubt that the world was not created in time but with time. An event in time happens after one time and before another, after the past and before the future. But at the time of creation there could have been no past, because there was nothing created to provide the change and movement which is the condition of time. ~Augustine, The City of God [413-426], Book XI, chapter 6~
A.W. Tozer： "Christianity is so entangled with the world that millions never guess how radically they have missed the New Testament pattern. Compromise is everywhere."
Leonard Ravenhill: Do you really want an intimacy with God where He shows you the world as He sees it?
「犧牲的人經常有一個不應該有的態度，就是以為他做的是一個偉大的自我犧牲。」－陳佐人牧師《2007年聖靈降臨節反思：信仰之延伸與異化》
'Some would have Christ only as a Savior-but not as a Lord. They desire Him only as a Priest to offer a sacrifice for their sins-but not as a Prophet to instruct them, nor as a King to rule over them. So that it is but part of Christ, that they would receive. "Yet to all who received Him... He gave the right to become children of God" John 1:12 A whole Christ must be received--with the whole heart.' - J.R. Miller
A.W. Tozer "In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of the work and quite literally wear our people out as well."
E.M. Bounds： We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
Don't you understand? People are not numbers. They have different colors of eyes, and they have different color of hair, they are so different in they heart, with different problems, and they cry for different reasons. And they are people! - Paul Washer《Weeping for the souls who are deceived, The Heart of the Gospel. 》
Edwards - Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your own care and prudence, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you, than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock.
All that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis
There is a global war on between Christ and Satan. All men are participants in this war. They all wear uniforms; they are all for or against God. - Cornelius Van Til
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. - C.S.Lewis
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it. - CS Lewis.
Leonard Ravenhill： What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here? In God's name, what are you going to do in a million year s in God's presence? Expect some reports from earth about football or something?
「有些樞機主教並不信耶穌，有些主教跟惡魔掛鉤」。 - 天主教廷梵蒂岡首席大法師阿摩斯神父（Father Gabriele Amorth）
魔鬼正住在梵蒂岡，後果大家有目共睹； - 阿摩斯神父
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. - C.S. Lewis
Cornelius Van Til : We dare not claim that the Christian story is “in accordance with logic” and “in accordance with fact” in terms of the vision of the self-authenticating man. We must rather call him to repentance. We must insist on his unconditional surrender to the self-authenticating Christ.
Cornelius Van Til : Non-Christian investigators of nature are as successful as they are because they work with stolen capital.
其實政府所能作的往往是皮毛工 夫，人心若不改變，政府的功能只是暫時的約束和援助而已。 - 林慈信《美國：一個敵視基督教的國家》
"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God." —William Gurnall
A.W. Tozer "I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion, I want all that God has or I don't want any."
The way to pray is use few words but give to them a great and deep meaning or intention.The fewer the words,the better the prayer,the more the words,the poorer the prayer.Few words and much meaning is Christian;many words and little meanig is heathenish.- Martin Luther.
We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do--flee it or die upon it. - A.W. Tozer
History is a story written by the finger of God. - C. S. Lewis
Joy is the serious business of Heaven. - C. S. Lewis
朗讀或頌唱一首真正的聖詩，就是在一個偉大而又有恩賜的心靈親密靈交的時刻，與他一同敬拜。- 陶恕
「音樂是神給人的一份禮物，．．因此要學習從音樂看見你的創造主，並且藉著音樂來讚美祂」。- 奧古斯丁
“即使你不在意領受講道，美妙的音樂，也把言詞帶進你的心裏。”- 奧古斯丁
「上帝的話語與音樂是最密切的結合。」- 馬丁路德
「神呼召人去敬拜祂，神創造人時的那一個目的就是永遠的敬拜和享受祂，人被帶到神、信仰和救恩面對是為了去敬拜、尊崇祂。可以說神徹頭徹尾的心意，就是要呼召我們敬拜祂並享受祂。- 陶恕「敬拜的真義」
「敬拜的人出了問題，用什麼程序都是錯的，對神有對的認識才有對的人，而對的人才有對的敬拜。」- 陶恕（A.W.Tozer）
Bruce - Therefore, examine your affections, examine your minds, and see whereto ye are addicted; suspect ever your affections, whatever enticement they have to cloak thyself with; suspect ever the motion of them, for the devil is in them; for, when they appear to be most quiet, yea, wholly rooted out and extinguished, ⋯⋯the stumps of them stick in the soul, and a very slight object or short idleset will enkindle them.
Cornelius Van Til Self-knowledge on the part of man presupposes for its foundation knowledge of God as God has revealed himself to man in his own constitution, in his environment and in his Word.
Leonard Ravenhill： We say, "Let the Spirit have His way in our church." We don"t!! We mimeograph what He has to do last Wednesday in the church office!
Christ alone is the Light and the Life of all men,not our reason.- Martin Luther
All trust not based on the Word of God is vain.- Martin Luther
"There are basically only two kinds of religion in the world: those based on human achievement and those based on divine accomplishment. One says you can earn your way to heaven; the other says you must trust in Jesus Christ alone." - John MacArthur
Spurgeon - "Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing" Courtesy of Brittany.
Cornelius Van Til: There is purpose within the universe because the triune God has a purpose for the universe. Every purpose within the universe must, in the last analysis, be referred to God. Without this reference to God, no purpose within the universe has meaning.
"Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus." - C.H. Spurgeon
Cornelius Van Til The very being of any created “fact” whether man, “nature,” or “history,” is exhausted in its revelatory character. There can be no other facts than such as speak clearly of God and therefore of God’s claims upon man. Every fact speaks of God and speaks of him in the imperative as well as in the declarative voice.
Leonard Ravenhill： God doesn't answer prayer. He answers desperate prayer! Your prayer life denotes how much you depend on your own ability, and how much you really believe God. The more self- confidence you have, the less you pray. The less self-confidence you have, the more you have to pray.
E.M. Bounds The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find ⋯⋯that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
A.W. Tozer "If there's anything necessary to your eternal happiness but God, you're not the kind of Christian that you ought to be. For only God is the true rest.
I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in his dispensation of grace. -C.H.Spurgeon
Leonard Ravenhill： Can you remember the last time you didn't go to bed because people were dying without Christ?
Leonard Ravenhill： Do you mean what you sing?
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly, are done worst when we try hardest to do them. - C. S. Lewis
Cornelius Van Til : Orthodox Christians, conscious of the wiles of Satan, pray, above all else, both for something of the true humility of their Redeemer as they view the great “mystery of godliness” and for something of the compassion for men which their Savior manifested when he shed his blood for them.
Leonard Ravenhill： I don't ask people if they're saved anymore; I look them straight in the eye and say, "Does Christ live inside you?"
「美國是一個敵視基督教的國家，但是裡面有很多好基督徒」- 林慈信牧師
Leonard Ravenhill： The devil's substitute for joy is entertainment.
Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can. D.L. Moody
You shut out and forget other people. Then you shut out and forget yourself. That is what is meant by entering into thy closet. You can enter into that closet when you are walking alone in a busy street, or going from one room to another in a house. You enter into that closet when you are in communion with God and nobody knows what you are doing. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones(1899 ~ 1981)
Prayer is undoubtedly the ultimate test, because a man can speak to others with greater ease than he can speak to God. - Llyod Jones
...the real danger for a man who leads a congregation in a public act of prayer is that he may be addressing the congregation rather than God. But when we are alone in the presence of God that is no longer possible. And have we not all known what it is to find that, somehow, we have less to say to God when we are alone than when we are in the presence of others? It should not be so; but it often is." - Llyod Jones
"There are things that are quite harmless in themselves and which are perfectly legitimate. Yet if you find that you are spending much of your time with them, and that you desire the things of God less, you must avoid them." - Llyod Jones
"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified." - Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994)
"De persona et duabus naturis", Naturæ rationalis individua substantia (an individual substance of a rational nature﹞) - 教父Boethius（480-525）對「位格」的標準定義，後人還加上有情感、意志、自由。
德蕾莎修女Mother Teresa在1985年對蔣經國說:「台灣的社會，物質富裕，精神卻是貧窮的。」
「因此，可以很清楚地看到的是，既沒有將來也沒有過去。本來不可以說有三種時間，過去、現在和將來，也許在本來的意義上可以說，有三種時間，過去事物的現在，現在事物的現在，將來事物的現在。因為這三者都存在於心靈中，我在別處看不到。過去事物的現在是記憶，現在事物的現在是注意，將來事物的現在是期待。」- 奧古斯丁《懺悔錄》(Aurelius Augustinus 354 ~ 430）
「既然過去已經不在，將來尚未到來，則過去和將來如何存在呢？現在如果永遠是現在，便沒有時間，而是永恆。現在之所以是時間，是因為它走向過去；那麼，我們怎樣說現在存在呢？現在所以在的原因是即將不在；因此，除非時間走向不存在，否則，我便不能正確地說，時間不存在。」- 奧古斯丁《懺悔錄》
「現在是絲毫沒有長度的。」- 奧古斯丁《懺悔錄》
將來尚未存在，怎樣減少消耗呢？過去已經不存在，怎樣會增加呢？這是由於在心靈中有三個階段：期待、注意和記憶。所期待的東西，通過注意，進入記憶。誰否認將來尚未存在？但對將來的期待已經存在於心。誰否認過去已經不存在？但過去的記憶還存在於心中。誰否認現在沒有長度，只是倏忽即逝的點滴？但注意能持續下去，將來通過注意走向過去。」- 奧古斯丁《懺悔錄》
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. - Martin Luther
一位神，怎能同時是慈愛又公義的呢？- 馬丁·路德（Martin Luther，1483~1546)
「我把基督傳授給你們，是很純全、簡單，又沒修改的」- 馬丁·路德臨終前對他的學生說
一、努力。希臘原文「agonizomai」，有受苦、掙扎的意思。 二、窄的。希臘原文「thlibo」，有受患難的意思。 三、小的。希臘原文「stenos」，有嘆息的意思。- Paul Washer
- 我有一個夢，夢想這國家要高舉並履行其信條的真正涵義：「我們信守這些不言自明的真理：人人生而平等」。
- 我有一個夢，我夢想有朝一日，在喬治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子和昔日奴隸主的兒子能夠同坐一處，共敘兄弟情誼。
- 我有一個夢，有朝一日，我的四個孩子將生活在一個不以膚色而是以品行來評判一個人優劣的國度裡。我今天就有這樣一個夢想。
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of real education.(智慧加上品格才是教育真正的目標) - 馬丁·路德·金
最終，我們記得的不是我們敵人的話語，而是我們朋友的沉默。 - 馬丁·路德·金
「我信，是因為我要知。」- 奧古斯丁
Apostle Paul said it would be better to depart and be with Christ for that is far better. He proved it by departing from the worthless things and pursuits in this life and being with Christ in this life. If we won't even do that now in our lives here, how can we say we would rather depart and be with Christ in Glory?- Paul Washer
The best antidote for anxiety is frequent meditation upon God's goodness, power and sufficiency. When the saint can confidently realize "The Lord is My Shepherd," he must draw the conclusion, "I shall not want! - A.W.Pink
Thus, when our disposition has been changed, the preaching of the Law begins also to change its effect in us, such that instead of terrifying us, it consoles us; instead of showing us how near our damnation is, it serves us as a guide to teach us the good works in which God has purposed we shall walk finally, instead of being an unpleasant and unbearable yoke, it becomes pleasant and light to us. - Theodore Beza (disciple of John Calvin) (1519 ~ 1605)
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. - CS Lewis
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. - CS Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - CS Lewis
「一個人的身量，就在他的禱告生活裡，他跪在 神面前的樣子，正是他的本相。時候將到，人心將會被顯露出來，有許多大人物會變得很渺小，而那些我們以為渺小的人，會變成屬靈的巨人。」- 慕安得烈(Andrew Murray)
It is your duty to accept of Christ, as He is offered in the Gospel, to repent of your sins, and to be holy in all manner of conversation; these things are commanded you of God; and His command, not your ability, is the measure of your duty. Moreover, these calls and exhortations are the means that God is please⋯⋯d to make use of, for converting His elect, and working grace in their hearts - Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C.S. Leiws.
我是跌落在黑暗中摸索的人。沒想到在黑暗中找到了拉鐘的繩索，一拉就把鐘敲響了，而驚醒了鎮上的人。- 卡爾·巴特Karl Barth(1886~1968)
在巴特對費爾巴哈的欣賞當中，並不是以狹義的「有神」或「無神」來評判無神論者，而是以他們所呈現對上帝與對人理解的深度來判準。由此觀之，一個表面上的無神論者並不見得比一個表面上的基督徒離上帝更遠。- 林鴻信（巴特──認識「有人性的上帝」的神學家）
Edwards - God does not choose men, because they are excellent, but he makes them excellent, and because he has chosen them. It is not because God considers them as holy that he chooses them, but he chooses them that they might be holy, Eph. 1:4, 5, According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the worl⋯⋯d, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love.
It is not sin, but God's grace showing a man and ever reminding him what a sinner he was that will keep him truly humble. - Andrew Murray
讓我跟你講關於功利主義的宗教，以及現代的速食基督教。你必須問自己：「你是在尋求神？還是在利用神？」-派瑞．雷漢德牧師(Paris Reidhead)《人本主義與今日的基督教》
The fact is, the Law was not given to justify us (for if this were so, Jesus Christ would have died in vain, as St. Paul says; Gal 2:21; 3:18-21), but, on the contrary, to condemn us, and to show us the hell which is opened wide to swallow us, to annihilate and totally abase our pride, in making the multitude of⋯⋯ our sins pass before our eyes and showing us the wrath of God which is revealed from Heaven. - Beza
「天下沒有中立的，每一方吋地方、每一秒鐘內，不是神爭取所有權就是撒旦。」－C.S. Lewis
"If I am not merciful there is only one explanation; I have never understood the grace and the mercy of God; I am outside Christ; I am yet in my sins, and I am unforgiven." Llyod Jones
A great many people know plenty of Scripture truth--but do not live it out. Yet the real test of knowing Scripture--is obedience. We really know only so much truth--as we get into our experience and conduct. The only part of the Bible we have really learned--is what we have learned to live. - J.R. Miller
「俄利根的作品猶如繁花盛放的一片綠茵。我看見美麗的鮮花，就會摘下來；帶刺的，就會避開，像避開蜜蜂的螫刺一樣。」- 狄奧菲魯斯(Theophilus )教長[公元5世紀]「雅典與耶路撒冷何干？
學院與教會何干？
異教徒與基督徒何干？」
特土良（BC150~230）
特土良說：「殉道者的血是教會的種子。」
「靈魂的傳遞，包括罪的傳遞。」- 特土良
「所有（三個：父、子和聖靈）都是屬於一位，因為在本質上是一；儘管這計劃的奧秘仍然要謹慎保護著，但這個計劃把一擴散為三，按照秩序有三個位格──父、子和聖靈。然而，這三並不是在於形態，而是在於地位；不是在於本質，而是在於形式；不是在於能力，而是在於面向。但是，這三同屬一個本質，一個形態與一個能力」。- 特土良
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. - A.W. Tozer
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. - Martin Luther
Leonard Ravenhill： C'mon what really excites you? (What do you do on) Sunday afternoon? (Do you) watch a bunch of dumb guys kick a ball around? When do you give Jesus two hours of your time adoring and magnifying Him?
你最怕失去甚麼？但那些事物或人是屬於誰的？- Charles Standly.
Luther - It is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
"cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ." - The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
上帝給我一個要傳的福音，跟傳福音用的馬，我卻把馬弄死了。（R.M. McCheyne）
一個傳道人的有用與否，完全在於他是否有聖潔的生活，因為講道不過是一兩個鐘頭的事，但是一個人的生活卻時時在發聲講道。（R.M. McCheyne）
在我的心靈靠近別人以前，先靠近神，先見祂的面。（R.M. McCheyne）
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