GROWTH

成長
Moving in the right circles is not the same as making progress.

繞著圈子跑可不等同有所進展。
The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing.

停止懺悔的基督徒亦是停止成長的基督徒。
There is a world of difference between activity and progress.

行動與進展可是天壤之別。
A sculptor can leave his work and come back to it another day, and take it up where he left off.  But it is not so with the growth of the soul.  The work of grace in us either waxes or wanes, flows or ebbs.

Andrew Anderson

一位雕刻家可以放下手邊工作，明天再繼續雕刻。靈魂的成長可不能如此，無論月虧月盈、漲潮退潮，恩典的工作在我們心中持續不斷。
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

全世界最大的房間就是進步、改善的房間。
Everywhere, everything in apostolic times was on the stretch...No premium was given to dwarfs, no encouragement to an old babyhood.

E. M. Bounds

在使徒時代，一切事工到處興旺、拓展。沒有獎賞給停滯不前的人，也沒有鼓勵給那些長不大的嬰孩。
Spiritual growth consists most in the growth of the root, which is out of sight.

Matthew Henry

靈命成長最重要的部分是根基的成長，而這一部份的成長是別人看不見的。
Some people's religion reminds me of a rocking-horse, which has motion without progress.

Rowland Hill

有些人的信仰讓我想起小孩的搖搖馬，只會搖動但卻前進不了。
Happy is he who makes daily progress and who considers not what he did yesterday but what advance he can make today.

Jerome

快樂就是一個人日日進步，他想的不是昨日是非，而是今天能有哪些進步之處。
The perfect Christian is the one who, having a sense of his own failure, is minded to press towards the mark.

Ernest F. Kevan

完全的基督徒就是一個能察覺自己的失敗，存心奔向標竿的人。
I am persuaded that nothing is thriving in my soul unless it is growing.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

我相信在內心中除了刻正成長的事外，沒甚麼可以興旺茂盛的。
The progressing Christian must cultivate the concentrated gaze of a person living in the future.

Orson Welles

向前邁進的基督徒必須養成定睛於活在未來的人。
Just as the sinner's despair of any help from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.

A. W. Pink

正如同罪人確實得救首要之道是對自己的能力失望，基督徒在恩典中成長的必要之道就是失去一切自信。
Sanctification is always a progressive work.

J. C. Ryle

聖潔是不斷進步的工作。
Growth is not the product of effort, but of life.

Augustus H. Strong

成長不是辛苦做出的成果，而是生命的產物。
Refuse to be average.

A. W. Tozer

拒絕成為平庸。
A good Christian is not like Hezekiah's sun that went backwards, nor Joshua's sun that stood still, but is always advancing in holiness, and increasing with the increase of God.

Henry Taylor

一個好基督徒不像希西家王的太陽向後退，也不像約書亞的太陽停滯不動，而是在聖潔中進步，與上帝的增長一起增長。
It is better to grow in grace than gifts.

Thomas Watson

在恩典中成長勝過在恩賜中成長。
When we stop growing we stop living and start existing.

Warren Wiersbe

當我們停止成長，我們也不再是生活而是只求生存而已。
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Tom Stoppard

成長而至成熟，這代價可真高。