
你若知道只有很少的人在意你來,你還會來嗎?你若知道你愛的那些人會當面譏笑你,你還會關懷他們嗎?你若知道,你所創造的舌頭會譏諷你,你所創造的口會向你吐口水,你創造的手,會將你釘在十字架上,你還會造它們嗎?基督造了。
-- Max Lucado
If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still
come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your
face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would
mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the
hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.
任何人都能同情忍受痛苦中的朋友,但要同情一位朋友的成功,卻需要具有十分美好的性情。
-- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it
requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's successes.
仁慈的話可以短,容易講出來,但是他們的回響卻是無止盡的。
-- Mother Theresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are
truly endless.
那坐在孤獨之中,安安靜靜的人,逃避了三個戰場:看,聽,講。但是還有一個戰場他還要繼續戰鬥,就是他自己的心。
-- St. Antony
Who sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped from three wars:
hearing, speaking, seeing; yet against one thing shall he ontinually
battle: that is, his own heart.
不尊重人,愛就會變得十分有限,不會升高,它是一個只有一個翅膀的天使。
-- Alexander Dumas
Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with
but one wing.
禮貌是謙卑的花朵
-- Joubert
Politeness is the blossom of our humanity.
耶穌的名號在我心裡是喜樂的歌,在我耳中是天上的音樂,在我口中是甜的蜜。
-- Richard Rolle
The name of Jesus is in my mind as a joyful song, in my ear a
heavenly music, and in my mouth a sweet honey.
要保持自己在這世界裡是個旅客,是陌生人,看世上的事業算不得甚麼。要保持自己的心靈自由,並常提拔自己的心與上帝親近。
-- Thomas ? Kempis
Keep yourself as a pilgrim and a stranger here in this world, as
one to whom the world's business counts but little. Keep your
heart free, and always lift it up to God.
人人都想改變世界,卻無人想要改變自己。
-- Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself.
驕傲是靈魂的內衣,穿時在最先,脫時在最後。
-- George Swinnock
Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last.