COMMUNION WITH GOD  See also: Love for Christ; Meditation; Prayer

與神團契

if you are a failure in your devotional life, you are a phoney in every other part.

如果你在靈修生活方面失敗,那你在任何方面都不老實。

God finds pleasure in us when we find pleasure in him.

Augustine

當我們在上帝裡頭尋得喜樂,上帝亦能從我們裡頭得著喜樂。

Communion with God is the beginning of heaven.

William Bates

與上帝團契正是天國的起點。

I have more to do with God than with all the world; yea, more and greater business with him in one day than with all the world in all my life.

Richard Baxter

跟上帝一起能做的事情遠比跟世界的多得多;而且光是一天跟上帝一起成就又多又大的事遠超過我一生歲月所做的。

Look into the Fountain, and the very looking will make you thirsty.

Andrew Bonar

定睛注視生命泉源,越注視越覺渴慕甘泉止渴。

No man who lives near to God lives in vain.

Haratius Bonar

沒有人因親近上帝而虛度歲月的。

To be little with God is to be little for God.

E. M. Bounds

只花少許時間與上帝同在,對上帝而言,亦是微不足道。

A Christian may have as choice communion with God when his eyes are full of tears as he can have when his heart is full of joy.

Haratius Bonar

一位基督徒淚水盈眶時,他能選擇與上帝密契,而致心中充滿喜樂。

Access to God lies open to none but his pure worshippers.

John Calvin

通往上帝之路已經鋪好,唯有敬虔崇拜者才能邁步向前。

I can afford to lose everything except the touch of God on my life.

Willard Cantelon

我能夠冒失去一切的危險,但絕不能失去上帝的同在。

Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.

Charles E. Fuller

與上帝親近意味著與世界征戰。

Adequate time for daily waiting on God...is the only way I can escape the tyranny of the urgent.

Charles Hummel

保持每日充足的時間等候上帝...是我避免心急如焚的唯一辦法。

If we spend sixteen hours a day dealing with tangible things and only five minutes a day with God, is it any wonder that tangible things are 200 times more real to us than God.

William R. Inge

如果你每天花十六個小時處理有形的事物,卻只花五分鐘與上帝相處,也難怪那些有形的事物對你而言比上帝還真實兩百倍。

I am so busy at this present time I cannot do with less than four hours each day in the presence of God.

Martin Luther

就因為我最近很忙,所以我每一天必須至少花四小時在上帝面前。

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God.  It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

我應該使用一天最佳時刻與上帝親近。這可是最崇高、有效果的差事,這可不能夠隨便擠到一個角落的。

Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone - alone God.

Leonard Ravenhill

蒼鷹兀自飛翔藍天、雄獅獨自狩獵,偉大心靈獨自邁步向前 - 獨自與神同行。

My God and I are good company.

Richard Sibbes

上帝與我確是最佳良伴。

Water is not lost when it emptieth itself into the sea, for there it is in its proper element.  A Christian is not lost when he loseth himself in his God, in his Saviour.

Richard Sibbes

當水倒空入海洋之中,水並未消失,它正適得其所。基督徒在他的上帝、他的救主中失去自己,亦是如此。

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age.  The man who would know God must give time to him.

A. W. Tozer

上帝既不像我們神經兮兮的忙碌低頭,也不擁抱我們科技時代的方法。想要認識上帝的人,你自己要把時間讓給祂。