| MAN - God's Creation and Concern | 人 - 上帝的創造與眷顧 |
| His creation by God is man's only claim to dignity,
importance or value. Cornelius Van Til 受造於上帝是人類尊嚴、重要或價值的唯一依據。 |
| God made man to be somebody
- not just to have things. John Piper 上帝創造人成為重要的人物 - 而不是只添個東西而已。 |
| The yearning of man's heart is homesickness for God. Karl Barth 人心的渴望是對上帝的思念之情。 |
| The most profound essence of
my nature is that I am capable of receiving God. Augustine 人們本性中最奧妙的本質就是我有能力接受上帝。 |
| Man without God ceases to be a man. Nicolas Berdyaev 人沒有上帝就不再是一個人。 |
| It is only an infinite God,
and an infinite good, that can fill and satisfy the precious and immortal soul of man. Thomas Brooks 只有無限的上帝以及無限的良善，能夠充滿並滿足人們珍貴、不朽的心靈。 |
| A circle cannot fill a triangle; no more can the
whole world fill the heart of man. Thomas Brooks 一個圓形無法充滿一個三角形；世間一切同樣無法滿足人心。 |
| Jesus Christ never met an
unimportant person. That is why God sent his Son to die for us. If someone
dies for you, you must be important. M. C. Cleveland 耶穌基督從未遇過一位不重要的人。這就是上帝差遣祂的兒子為我們死的原因。如果有一個人為你而死，那你一定是重要的。 |
| In God's sight there are two men - Adam and Jesus
Christ - and these two men have all other men hanging at their girdle strings. Thomas Goodwin 在上帝的眼中有兩個人 - 亞當與耶穌 - 而其他的人就攀附在兩者的腰帶上。 |
| Because he is made in the
image of God, man is inviolable. Os Guinness 由於人是按照上帝形象照的，因此人是神聖不可侵犯的。 |
| If God is God and man is made in his image, then
each man is significant. Os Guinness 如果上帝是上帝而人是照祂的形象造的，因此每一個人都是重要的。 |
| Historic Christianity sees
man as distinct, but not divorced, from nature. Os Guinness 歷史的基督教看人是清晰的個體，但不與他的本質分離。 |
| Man still stands in the image of God - twisted,
broken, abnormal, but still the image-bearer of God. Francis Schaeffer 人們仍然處於上帝的形象 - 縱使扭曲、破碎、變得不正常，仍然是上帝形象的背負者。 |
| Because we are the handiwork
of God it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological. A. W. Tozer 因為我們是上帝手所做的工，隨之的一切問題及解決之道都是神學的。 |
| The man who denies that fallen man bears upon him
something of the ruined relic of what he once was is no true friend of the Bible. A. W. Tozer 人若否認墮落的人背負了一些他曾有過但已損壞的遺物，那他就不是聖經的忠實朋友。 |