GRACE - Essence

恩典 - 本質

Sin and grace are like two buckets at a well; when on is up the other is down.

Thomas Brooks

罪與恩典就像是井中的吊桶;當一個吊桶上來時,另一個就下降。

Grace...turns lions into lambs, wolves into sheep, monsters into men and men into angels.

Thomas Brooks

恩典使猛獅變成綿羊,豺狼變成馴羊,怪獸變成人類,而人則變成天使。

Grace...turns counters into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength and wants into abundance.

Thomas Brooks

恩典使塑膠籌碼變金幣,鵝卵石變成珍珠,病痛變成健壯,軟弱變剛強,而窮乏的則變成豐富。

Grace is the freeness of love.

Thomas Goodwin

恩典是在愛中得自由。

The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him, and exalt him without inflating him.

Charles Hodge

恩典的信仰讓人謙卑卻不被貶低,使人高升卻不自我膨脹。

From what the Bible says it seems to me that we shall not know the full explanation of grace even in heaven.

William Gurnall

從聖經教導看來,我們縱使到了天上也無法知曉恩典的完全解釋。

Grace is not native but donative.

William Jenkyn

恩典不是與生具有,而是白白得來。

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

A. W. Tozer

若非首先明白敬畏上帝,無人能知曉上帝真正的恩典。

There is no reason to be given for grace but grace.

Martin Luther

除了恩典之外,實在沒有賜予恩典的理由。