| POWER | 能力 |
| Nothing will so avail to divide the church as love
of power. Chrysostom 沒有什麼比對權力的渴求更能分裂教會了。 |
| Remember Jesus for us is all
our righteousness before a holy God, and Jesus in us is all our strength in an ungodly
world. Robert Murray M'Cheyne 要記得對我們而言，耶穌使我們在聖潔上帝之前得稱為義，而耶穌在我們裡面正是我們生活在這不敬虔世界的力量。 |
| We have no power from God unless we live in the
persuasion that we have none of our own. John Owen 唯有深信自身毫無力量，我們才能從上帝那裡獲得力量。 |
| We only lose our weaknesses
through discovery of them. J. Charles Stern 唯有認清自己的軟弱，我們才能克服它們。 |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want
to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 幾乎所有人都能承受逆境，但若要考驗一個人的品格，就給他權力吧。 |
| You see what power is -
holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan 你可知道什麼是權力嗎？那就是將他人的恐懼掌握在手中，然後展示給他們看！ |
| The love of liberty is the love of others; the love
of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) 對自由的熱愛，是對他人的關愛；對權力的熱愛，則是對自身的偏愛。 |
| Knowledge itself is power. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) 知識本身就是權力。 |
| Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the
doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. Phillips Brooks 不要祈求輕鬆的人生，而要祈求成為更堅強的人。不要祈求與你能力相匹配的任務，而要祈求擁有與任務相匹配的力量。如此，你所完成的工作將不再是奇蹟，而你自己，便是那個奇蹟。 |
| We have, I fear, confused
power with greatness. Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965 我擔心，我們已將權力與偉大混為一談。 |
| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the
fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck 權力本身並不會使人腐化，真正使人腐化的是恐懼……或許是對失去權力的恐懼。 |
| Power always has to be kept
in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is
doubly dangerous. William Proxmire 權力必須受到制衡，尤其是以國家安全之名在暗中行使的權力，更是危險加倍。 |
| Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to
tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Thatcher 成為有權力的人就像成為一位淑女一樣。如果你告訴人家你是淑女，那你就不是了。 |
| Military power wins battles,
but spiritual power wins wars. General George Catlett Marshall 軍事力量能贏得戰役，而屬靈力量才能贏得戰爭。 |
| If you tell the truth, you have infinite power
supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon 如果你說的是實話，無限的力量將支持你；但如果不是，無限的力量將與你對立。 |
| Giving money and power to
government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O'Rourke 把金錢與權力給政府就如同給青少年威士忌及汽車鑰匙。 |
| Never forget that the most powerful force on earth
is love. Nelson Rockefeller (1908 - 1979) 永遠不要忘記，世上最大的力量是愛。 |
| He who does not desire power
is fit to hold it. Plato (427 BC - 348 BC) 不渴望得著權力的人才配得著權力。 |
| Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These
three alone lead life to sovereign power. Lord Tennyson 自尊、自知、自我約束，這三者讓生命得著無上的能力。 |
| Religion holds the solution
to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or
nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his
own power or the power of God. A. J. Toynbee 宗教蘊藏了解決一切人際關係問題的答案，無論是父母與子女之間，還是國與國之間。人類終究必須作出抉擇：是敬拜自身的力量，還是敬拜上帝的力量。 |