| COMPROMISE | 妥協 |
| It is impossible to compromise with sin and conquer
it at the same time. A. W. Tozer 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. A. W. Tozer 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. Richard De Lisse 那些總是委屈自己、竭力討好每一個人的人，很快就會削弱自己的脊梁骨。 |
| 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 順著最小阻力的路線走，會彎曲了河流，也會扭曲了人性。 |
| 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 一種軟弱而溫室養成的基督教，害怕清苦與孤獨、不願面對暴風雨和挑戰高峰，最終必將在隨波逐流的籠牢裡，變得肥胖而腐臭。 |
| We have been accustomed to the sacrifice of the
ideal on the altar of the convenient and immediately profitable. Stuart Holden 我們早已習以為常地，為了圖方便和眼前的近利，而犧牲了崇高的理想。 |
| 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 求神幫助我們免於陷入斷斷續續的宗教生活！。 |
| 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 要看我們是否已被世界同化，其實昭然若揭：當我們不再熱情也不再冷淡，只是一味地與世俗折衷妥協時，答案就揭曉了。 |
| 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。 |