奉耶穌的名禱告，不僅是在禱告開始或結束時提到祂的名字，而是在相信祂的應許.依靠祂的恩典，與行祂所行的情況下，在耶穌的心靈裡禱告。
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pray in the name of Jesus is something more than a mere mention of that
name at the beginning and the ending of a prayer. It is to pray in the
mind and spirit of Jesus, while we believe His promises, rely upon His
grace, and work His works.
基督教的信息不是一種訓誨──「叫人努力作好人，」它雖然 是好勸勉，但裡面沒有救人的福音。
Halford E. Luccock (1885-1960), Marching Off the Map [1952]
The Christian message is not an exhortation--"try hard to be good." Good
advice, but there is no saving gospel in that....
離開了上帝，每一種活動都只是過眼煙雲。
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of
insignificance.
你在生氣之時同時要笑，乃是不可能的，氣與笑互相排斥。你有權選擇其中的一樣。
-Wayne Dyer
"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger
and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose
either.
那最有感染性的，莫過於敬虔的生活。與你天天親密在一起生活的人，需要這項挑戰，不是拘謹於規矩，不是講道，只是完全乾淨的生活，只是誠實善良，出於內心深處，毫無虛偽的正直。
-- Charles Swindoll
Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you
rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish.
Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness,
bone - deep, non-hypocritical integrity.
最近的時代，我們似乎進入了一個特別危險的歪曲的人類學階段，那就是，虛無主義與將人神化的古怪的聯合。依理論說，人只是一種頭腦高度發展的動物，但同時又相信人可以藉科技的器械達成他一切所要的。那本來認為終於被征服的人的神化，又似乎捲土重來了。這次則是以科技創新的神化姿態出現，認為科技也是無所不能的了。人類丟棄了種族血統的假宗教之後，又面臨了更危險的科技假宗教。在人的這些新宗教之中，不容許有人格，自由，與公義存在。但那一切危險中最危險的是，它使人神化，又同時使人變成毫無價值。
... Emil Brunner (1889-1966), The Scandal of Christianity [1951]
In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous
new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of
nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but
an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is
believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices
of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been
thought to be finally
overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification
of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is
ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race
and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical
pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and
justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most
dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time
nothing and God.
我看不見全圖，毫無線索，但我知道上帝看見與知道一切。即使我現在沒有這樣的感覺，我也要如此宣稱。
-- Steven Curtis Chapman
I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm
going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.
雖然我們都容易想到人無數的愚蠢與自私的企圖，扭曲與調皮的話。從這一切，就可看出罪惡，如同從果子可以看出樹來一樣。但這些外在的表現並非罪的本身，罪的工價乃是死。罪並不只限於我們所行的惡。而是我們裡面的惡，就是我們。我們可以稱它為我們的驕傲，我們的懶惰，或是我們生命的奸詐？讓我們這一次稱它為大叛逆。它一次又一次，讓我們成為上帝的敵人，同胞的敵人並我們自己的敵人。
... Karl Barth (1886-1968)
We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish
intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and deeds. From all these,
sin can be known, as a tree can be known from its fruits. Yet these
outward signs are not sin itself, the wages of which are death. Sin is
not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the
evil which we are. Shall we call it our pride or our laziness, or shall
we call it the deceit of our life? Let us call it for once the great
defiance which turns us again and again into
the enemies of God and of our fellowmen, even of our own selves.
人能治癒情慾，天使能治癒惡毒，惟有上帝能治癒驕傲。
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Men can heal lust. Angels can heal malice. God alone can cure pride.
