| COMPROMISE | 妥協 |
| It is impossible to compromise with sin and conquer
it at the same time. 想要同時與罪惡妥協又想勝過罪惡，那是不可能的。 |
| It is perhaps the greatest
sin of the greatest number of Christians that in so many details of life they put God
second. 或許最多數的基督徒所犯最大的罪就是在許多生活細節上將上帝放在第二位。 |
| People who always bend backwards to please everybody
soon weaken their spine. 那些一天到晚向後彎腰以取悅眾人的，很快的他們的脊椎就會變得脆弱不堪。 |
| Every lesser good has an
essential element of sin. Augustine 任何次好的都含有罪的本質。 |
| Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers and
crooked men. William H. Danforth 較少抗拒的防線讓河道彎曲也同樣讓人彎曲。 |
| A soft and sheltered
Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the
heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity. Vance Havner 一個鬆軟、被保護的基督教，害怕困難、孤單，不願意面對風暴及冒險攀高，將會終老於油膩、污穢，順應社會潮流的牢籠。 |
| We have been accustomed to the sacrifice of the
ideal on the altar of the convenient and immediately profitable. Stuart Holden 我們已經習以為常的將理想犧牲在方便、眼前利益的祭壇上。 |
| It is impossible at one and
the same time to make earthly and heavenly things the principal subject of your thoughts. A. W. Pink 要在同一個時間裡將屬世、屬天的事物同樣擺在你思想中的首要地位，那是不可能的。 |
| Compromise must always be impossible where the truth
is essential and fundamental. C. H. Spurgeon 在真理是不可或缺且是根本之道的地方，妥協往往是不可能的。 |
| May God save us from
intermittent religion! C. H. Spurgeon 求神幫助我們脫離斷斷續續的宗教。 |
| There is not such cruelty to men's souls as clemency
to their sins. George Swinnock 對人靈魂至為殘酷之事莫過於善待罪惡。 |
| We can tell when we have
been influenced by the world. It is when we find ourselves neither hot nor cold,
just compromised. Malcolm Watts 我們可以知道自己何時受世界影響。就在我們發現自己既不冷又不熱，也就是妥協的時候。 |
| Compromise is like dry rot in the fabric of the
Christian church; sooner or later the structure will give way. Mary S. Wood 妥協就像教會建築物朽壞的部分，這棟建築遲早都會土崩瓦解的。 |