| POWER | 能力 |
| Nothing will so avail to divide the church as love
of power. Chrysostom 再沒有比貪愛權力更能分化教會的了。 |
| 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 除非我們告訴自己在我們裡面一無所有，否則我們無法得著上帝的能力。 |
| We only lose our weaknesses
through discovery of them. J. Charles Stern 我們只能藉著發現我們的軟弱無助方能除去這樣的軟弱。 |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want
to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 幾乎每一個人都能承受苦難，但如果你真要試驗一個人的品格，那就給他權力。 |
| You see what power is -
holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan 你看，權力就是這樣 - 你把某個人畏懼的弱點抓在手上，然後張開手讓他看。 |
| The love of liberty is the love of others; the love
of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) 喜愛自由是喜愛別人；喜愛權力則是喜愛自己。 |
| 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 不要祈禱輕鬆度日。祈禱成為堅強的人。不要祈求與你的能力相當的工作，而是祈求與你的工作相當的能力。那當你做這些事時不需要甚麼奇蹟，因為你自己就是奇蹟。 |
| We have, I fear, confused
power with greatness. Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965 我擔心，我們把權力與偉大混淆在一起了。 |
| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the
fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck 權力不會腐敗。懼怕會腐敗...或許是因為畏懼失去權力。 |
| Power always has to be kept
in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is
doubly dangerous. William Proxmire 權力需要經常接受驗證；在秘密中操作的權力，特別是那些在國家安全掩護下運作的權力加倍可怕。 |
| 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個淑女一樣。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 軍隊贏得戰役，但屬靈的能力贏得戰爭。 |
| If you tell the truth, you have infinite power
supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon 如果你說出事實，你就擁有無限的能力支持你；但如果你不說出來，你便有無限的能力對抗你。 |
| 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 宗教掌握解決人際關係所有問題的答案，不管是親子之間或是國家之間。人們遲早都需要決定，他是否要敬拜自己的能力或是上帝的能力。 |