名 句 精 华

socrato

一 些 神 学 家 ， 作 家 等 有 时 会 把 很 精 粹 的 神 学 思 考 浓 缩 成 一 个 句 子 。 有 些  可 以 令 人 茅 塞 顿 开 ，拍 案 叫 绝 ， 或让 人  反 复 思 考 ，   非 常 有 趣 ， 也  很 有 启 发 性 。在 这 里 和 大 家 分 享 几 个 。  欢 迎 大 家 也 贴 一 贴 几 个 来 分 享 分 享 。


"It is faith alone that saves, but the faith that saves is never found alone."   
~John Calvin~

“The national anthem of Hell is " I did it my way" . ”      ~Peter Kreeft~  
(My Way 是 Frank Sinatra 的 名 曲 ， 这 可 不 是 争 对 歌 曲 或 歌 星 写 的 。 )

“不 要 把 绝 对 的 东 西 相 对 化 ， 把 相 对 的 东 西 绝 对 化 。 ”  ~唐 崇 荣 ~

[ 本帖最后由 socrato 于 28-12-2007 01:32 AM 编辑 ]

@res

我在心理课时，讲师有说过以下的名句精华，但我不是很明白，有谁明白吗？
Nothing real can be threatened,
Nothing unreal exist.
The peace of God is based on this fact.

daimon

There is nothing that pleases the Lord so much as praise.
Are you thanking Him for your actual blessings that are more than can be
numbered?
Are you daring to praise Him even for those trials which
are but blessings in disguise?
Have you learned to praise Him in advance for the
things that have not yet come?


人的心靈，若聖神不賜予信德，
則雖有認識天主的性能，
卻不會具備知識的光亮．
- 聖依拉利主教


Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa


幾時保祿命我們彼此擔待，
他必以愛德為條件；
幾時他提及合一的希望，
他必揭示和平的聯繫．
- 伕名


You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
- Martin Luther


聖神顯示在每人身上雖有不同，但全是為人的好處。


A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer
with faith.
- Powell, Vavasor


那些離開死亡的人，
就是離開現世的寓所，
到那生命之光，
用活石砌成的宮殿裡去．
- 奧利振


Oneof the marks of spiritual maturity is the quiet confidence that God isin control - without the need to understand why He does what He does.


願那由殉道之血所灌溉的非洲，
藉此寶貴的祭品，
按天主的聖意，獲得自由，
重生於自主之權中．
- 教宗保祿六世


The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.
- George Muller



你要言行合一，以身作則，
好使你的門徒，非但聽到你講謙遜，
而且，在你的生活中，
也會看到你謙遜的楷模．
- 教宗大額我略


If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Theresa



教會好比一艘大船，
在這世海中航行，
歷經世風俗浪的各種考驗，動盪不安；
但該予以治理，切不可聽其所止而休焉．
- 聖玻尼法主教


Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands
of the Lord.
- Pink, A. W.


約納堂，不怕威脅，
仍舊保持友誼；他為了友誼而輕視王位，
輕視榮華富貴，一味熱愛知友，
對達味說：「你將為王上，
而我在你後面，坐第二把交椅」．　　　
- 雅肋鐸院長


The world can create trouble in peace,but God can create peace in trouble.
- Thomas Watson


天主聖言的手，把我們不穩定的心靈，
從深淵中拉起來，予以堅定穩固，
使之無恐無懼，堅信聖言的話：
「心裡潔淨的人是有福的，
因為他們要看見天主」．
- 聖額我略．尼森


God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us
worthy.
- Watson, Thomas


生命的赐予者，丰沛的爱，　 　　　
可信靠的陪伴者，永恒的智慧，
求禰降福我和这只杯子。
当我每天用它祈祷时，使它成为神圣的器皿。
愿它成为我的老师，帮助我找寻到禰那里的路。
愿它盛满禰智慧及禰安慰的讯息。
愿它与我的生活相连，在我内创造一颗慷慨的心，
愿它使我更接近禰，与[合为爱的一体。　 　　　　　　
-露帕

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward
sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and
heaven shall make amends for all.
- Brooks, Thomas


「如果我不宣講福音，
我是有禍的」，
因為我就是由基督所派遺；
我是宗徒，
我也是証人．儘管路途是迢遙的，
使命是困難的，但我的心是熱烈的，
因為「愛催迫了我」．
- 教宗保祿六世


The world can create trouble in peace,but God can create peace in trouble.
- Thomas Watson


如果你是好人，那是天主使你為善，
那是天主受讚美而不是你受讚美，
因為你自己，只能做惡，而不能行善．
- 聖奧斯定

daimon

There is no blessed way of living, than the life of faith upon a
covenant-keeping God - to know that we have no care, for he cares for us; that
we need have no fear, except to fear him; that we need have no troubles, because
we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscious that he will sustain
us.
- Spurgeon, C. H.

你的肉體，被浸在水中，
以洗滌你的一切肉慾的罪過．
你的一切罪孽---惡習，
都被埋葬在水裡吧！
- 聖安博主教

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa

若人類能善用世上的榮華富貴，
來掙取天上的永遠真福，
那麼，世上的榮華富貴也成為有益的了．
- 聖亨利

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we
need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

我們在外面講道，
而主在人心內「建屋」．
衪要興建，衪要勸免，衪要警告，
衪要使你們領悟，使你們實踐信仰；
可是，我們也要辛勞工作，
好像工人一樣．
- 聖奧斯定

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it. Attitude is the
single most significant decision I make each day.
- C. Swindoll

daimon

一些东西本来是好的，
但是当我们渴望/爱这样东西多过爱神时，
这东西在我们的心中无形中就形成一个小偶像，
取代了神的地位了。

瑪利亞．瑪達肋納起初尋找，
卻沒有找到主；
她堅持下去再找，結果，越是尋找，
她尋找的心火也越大，終於找到了主．
- 教宗大額我略

It is not what WE do for God, but what HE does through us.
- Judy Sexton

除非天主願意，甚麼事情也不會發生。
我深信無論發生甚麼事，
不管它外表看來是多麼的壞，
實際上常是對我們最好的。
- 聖多瑪斯‧摩爾

He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can
bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.

- Warren W. Wiersbe

這便是最神秘的奧蹟，因為人，
除非接受它，誰也不知它，
除非切望它，誰也不接受它；
除非由基督所遣於人世的聖神，
先用愛火去燒熱人心，人心決不切望它．
- 聖文德

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit,
which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in
every condition.
- Burroughs, Jeremiah

貞女瑪麗亞，既然誕生耶穌，
就是誕生人類的救主，
貞潔與真理的保衛者，
理應白璧無瑕，
毫不有損她的貞身了．
- 聖大良教宗

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestation of His grace,
power, and love.
- Taylor, Hudson

若人的祝福，尚能改變本性，
何況我們以救主之言所祝聖的功能，
更該如何呢？
因為你所領受的這件聖體聖事，
是用「基督的話」祝聖而成．
- 聖安博  

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the
Lord.
- Cradock, Walter

我們不僅應該被稱為基督徒，但該實為基督徒才是！
- 聖依納爵

We cannot learn fear of God and the basic principles of godliness,unless we are
pierced by the sword of the Spirit and destroyed.
- John Calvin

daimon

“God is at work in all religions, cultures and
histories.  We cannot restrict God’s action in the
world.”  
- Christian Council of Asia


天主之言，被稱為黃金，
為無價之寶的寶石，
同時也是劈開罪人惡習的斧頭，
是斬斷肉身、世俗、魔鬼
而制服一切罪惡的利刃．
- 聖老楞佐．布林希

The wise Christian will not let his assurance depend upon his powers of
imagination.
- Tozer, A. W.


我們不僅應該被稱為基督徒，但該實為基督徒才是！
- 聖依納爵

Spread out your petitions before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be
done."
The sweetest lesson I have earned in God\\\'s school is to let the Lord choose
for me.
- Dwight L Moody

古代的先知們，
也是基督精神上的門徒，
也期望祂來，為他們的導師；
既然如此，
我們若沒有基督，怎能生活呢？
不寧唯是，凡曾期望衪來而善生者，
待祂一來，
祂便把他們從死者復活起來了．
- 聖依納爵

“The important religious distinction is not between
those who worship and those who don’t; but between
those who love and those who don’t.”
- Anthony de Mello

“Certainty is the sin of bigots, terrorists, and Pharisees. Compassion makes us think we may be wrong.” Anthony De Mello

當我們給與貧窮者必需的物品，
我們不是施予他們我個人的慷慨，
我們是還給他們原來是他們的東西。
- 金口聖若望

“Theimportant religious distinction is not between those who worship andthose who don’t; but between those who love and those who don’t.”
Anthony de Mello

保祿說：「我充滿了安慰」，
因為你們改善了；
我們也就因著你們的善行，
而獲得了安慰．
- 金口若望

“Godis at work in all religions, cultures and histories. We cannot restrictGod’s action in the world.” Christian Council of Asia

當你給飢餓人充飢時，
那麼，不僅你所給予人的，
成為你的東西，而且還加給你別的東西．
- 聖巴西略

“The Christian story makes most sense of my experience, but there are other stories.” Martin Palmer

“God is like a mirror.  The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.”  Rabbi Harold Kushner

In some causes silence is dangerous.
- Saint Ambrose

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
- Saint Ambrose

WhenI go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you alsofollow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want togive or receive scandal.
- Saint Ambrose

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
- Saint Ambrose
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
-St. Francis of Assisi

For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Grantme the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of ourorder to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath thesun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimonythan begging.
- St. Francis of Assisi

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Ifa superior give any order to one who is under him which is against thatman's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not bedismissed.
- St. Francis of Assisi

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Ifyou have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelterof compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise withtheir fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi

烏鴉

请大家贴多一点中文的名句。

谢谢。

烏鴉

世上倘有真喜乐，唯清心者得享有。
  －肯培多马

慕容仰

稍微交代它的作者、出处（书、或口传）、说话对象（个人或群体）、时代背景及所针对的问题或需要？

因为若只贴名句精华，恐怕会让人以抽离的认知看待这些名句。

谢谢！