MEDITATION 沈思默想

Meditation has a digesting power and turns special truth into nourishment.

Thomas Watson

沈思默想具有消化的力量，能將特別的真理轉化為滋養。

The hearer of God's Word ought to be like those animals that chew the cud; he ought not only to feed upon it, but to ruminate upon it.

Augustine

聆聽上帝話語的人應該不斷咀嚼、反芻；他應該不單是得著上帝話語的餵養，還要反覆沈思默想。

The vessels are fullest of grace which are nearest its spring. The more Christ's glory is beheld, the more men are changed.

William Bagshawe

接近泉源的容器盛滿了恩典。基督的榮耀越受留意，人就越見更新變化。

A man may think of God every day and meditate on God no day.

William Bridge

一個人可能天天想到上帝，卻沒有一天好好默想上帝。

There is no place like the feet of Jesus for resolving the problems that perplex our hearts.

G. B. Duncan

在沒有一個地方比耶穌的腳前更能夠解決我們心中困惑的問題。

If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture...we must be willing to go down into the recreation silence.

Richard Foster

如果我們冀望超越我們文化的膚淺，我們就必須願意走進重新得力的靜默之中。

Meditation is the best help to memory.

Matthew Henry

沈思默想是記憶的最佳幫助。

It is easier to go six miles to hear a sermon, than to spend one quarter of an hour in meditating on it when I come home.

Philip Henry

走上六哩路去聽一篇信息，比回家花一刻鐘思想這篇信息還容易。

Meditation is a scriptural duty...as binding as Bible reading and prayer.

John J. Murray

沈思默想是合乎聖經的職責...是與閱讀聖經、禱告密不可分的。

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

John Owen

在上帝話語裡默想上帝的話語。

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

J. J. Packer

沈思默想是對心靈的呼召，在默想中，一個人思想、內住並身體力行對上帝工作、旨意、目的及應許的瞭解。

One design in meditation must be rather to cleanse our hearts than to clear our minds.

George Swinnock

我們沈思默想的目的在求清潔我們的心勝過潔淨我們的思想。

Meditation is the bellows of the affections.

Thomas Watson

沈思默想是愛心火爐的風箱。

Reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditating that must form our judgements.

Isaac Watts

閱讀與交談能供應我們不少人與事的想法，但只有我們自己的沈思默想能幫助我們做出判斷。