| LIFE | 生命 |
| If life is an accident, it cannot conceivably have
any purpose, for accident and purpose are mutually exclusive. C.S. Lewis 如果生命是偶然產生的，生命就不可能有任何目的，因為偶然與目的是風馬牛不相及的。 |
| Life at its best means
putting God first. Billy Graham 生命的極致在於讓上帝為首。 |
| Life asks no questions that faith cannot answer. Vance Havner 生命所問的問題信心都能回答。 |
| The world is only a
passage room to eternity; the world is to us as the wilderness was to Israel, not to rest
in but to travel through. Matthew Henry 世界僅是通往永生的候車站；對我們而言，世界是通往以色列的曠野地，這都不是旅途的終點而是中途站。 |
| This life is all the heaven the worldling has, and
all the hell the saint ever sees. Thomas Watson 生命是世俗眼中的天堂，也是聖徒眼中的地獄。 |
| As soon as man is born he
begins to sicken; he only terminates his sickness by his death. Augustine 人一旦生下來就病了；唯一消除疾病的方法是死亡。 |
| Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie 生命是學習謙卑的一個漫長功課。 |
| Age and youth look upon life
from the opposite ends of the telescope; to the one it is exceedingly long, to the other
exceedingly short. Henry Ward Beecher 老年人與年輕人從望遠鏡的兩頭看生命；一邊覺得人生苦短，另一邊卻覺得人生漫長難耐。 |
| Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every
man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's
paradise. Phillips Brooks 做個有尊嚴的人、過當過的生活，如果每個人都像你一樣，每個人的生活都跟你一樣，這世界就會成為上帝的樂園。 |
| If it were not that
ingratitude had blinded our eyes, every birth would fill us with amazement. John Calvin 若非忘恩負義蒙蔽我們的眼睛，每一次新生命的誕生都會讓我們驚嘆萬分。 |
| The quality of life is more important than life
itself. Alexus Carrel 生命的品質比生命本身重要。 |
| The man who regards his own
life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost
disqualified for life. Albert Einstein 一個人若視自己及他人的生命毫無意義的，這人不只可悲亦不夠格過日子。 |
| What makes life dreary is absence of motive.
What makes life complicated is multiplicity of motive. What makes life victorious is
singleness of motive. George Eliot 缺乏動機讓生命變得毫無生氣。太多動機讓生命變得錯綜複雜。單一的目標讓生命得勝有餘。 |
| Life is a path trodden by
all men, and but once. John Gill 生命是所有人都需走上一遭的道路，只走一遭而已。 |
| A useless life is only an early death. Johannes Von Goethe 無用的生命是夭折的生命。 |
| The business of our lives is
not to please ourselves but to please God. Matthew Henry 我們的生活可不是在取悅自己而是討上帝得喜悅。 |
| Of what does life essentially consist?...Bible
answers that life is composed of relationships. Robert Horn 生命基本上由甚麼組成？...聖經說生命是由關係構成的。 |
| It is not possible to set
out in the Christian profession with a more instructive or impressive idea than this -
life is the seed-time for eternity. John Angell James 「生命是為永生撒種的時間」 - 對基督徒而言再沒有比這個觀念更有教導性、更令人印象深刻的了。 |
| Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and
you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. William James 撒下一次行動收割一個習慣；撒下一個習慣收割一種個性；撒下一種個性收割一個命運。 |
| Whatever we do in this life
is seed. Thomas Manton 無論我們今生作甚麼，都是撒種。 |
| Make sure the thing you are living for is worth
dying for. Charles Mayes 要確定當你為一件事而活時，這件事亦是值得你為此而死的。 |
| Let us live as people who
are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live. James S. Stewart 讓我們活著像一位預備妥善面對死亡的人，而死時像一位預備妥善面對生命的人 |
| Take care of your life and the Lord will take care
of your death. George Whitefield 你對你的生命負責，上帝就會對你的死負責。 |
| Ask the Lord to make your
life a glory to him, a menace to the devil, a strength to your church and a witness to the
world. Frederick P. Wood 祈求上帝使你的生命對祂而言是個榮耀，對魔鬼則是危險，對你的教會是個力量而對這世界是一個見證。 |
| The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings
than endings. Dave Weinbaum 豐富人生的秘訣，就是多開創而少終結。 |
| I endeavor to be wise when I
cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and
patient when there be no redress. Elizabeth Montagu 我不能歡樂時，就盡量要做到明智；不能開心時，就盡量要做到隨和；對不能補救的事盡量使自己心滿意足；遇到不可糾正之事時，盡量要做到容忍。 |
| Millions long for immorality wjo don't know what to
do with themselves on a rainly Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz 許多人希望長生不死，卻不曉得如何過一個下雨的星期日下午。 |
| Cynicism is not realistic
and tough. I's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to
try. Peggy Noonan 憤世嫉俗既不實際，也非堅強的表現，甚至可以說是懦弱的行為，因為憤世嫉俗就等於逃避現實。 |
| Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
They are not the same. Hillary Rodham Clinton 事業有別於人生，兩者並非同一回事。 |
| Don't let bad memories from the past ruin your life
today. Patricia Taal-Illsley 別讓不開心的回憶破壞今天的人生。 |
| The game of life is a game of boomerange. Our
thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. F. S. S. 人生有如擲回飛棒遊戲。我們的思想言行，遲早會絲毫不差地像我們果報。 |
| Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response to the error that counts. Nikki Giovanni 人生難免有錯，關鍵是錯了怎麼辦。 |
| Life is always walking up to us and saying,
"Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its
picture. Russell Baker 人生總是走到我們跟前說：「進來啊，人生很美。」我們如何回應？總是退後一步，給它拍張照片。 |
| Lives are like paintings;
it's always better to look at them four steps back. Jose Saramago 人生就像一幅畫，退後幾步來看總是好些。 |