PRAYER - Importance

禱告 - 重要
Prayer is not the least we can do; it is the most.

禱告可不是我們能做的最小事情；而是最大的事情。
To attempt any work for God without prayer is as futile as trying to launch a space probe with a per-shooter.

不禱告而嘗試為上帝做任何工作，就像想用豆子槍發射太空偵測器一樣的徒勞無功。
We need more Christians for whom prayer is the first resort, not the last.

我們需要更多把禱告當成首要之務而不是最後憑藉的基督徒。
When problems get Christians praying they do more good than harm.

當困難臨到驅使基督徒禱告時，這些困難的利大於弊。
If your troubles are deep-seated or long-standing, try kneeling.

如果你的問題是根深蒂固或者存在已久，那就試試看跪下禱告。（這個句子在於seat坐、standing站，以及kneeling跪下的比較。 ）
Mountains can only be climbed with knees bent.

高山只能靠著屈膝登上。
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God secondary in life affairs.

E. M. Bounds

將禱告擺在次要位置意味在你的生命中將上帝擺在次要的位置。
The best Christian is he that is the greatest monopolizer of time for private prayer.

Thomas Brooks

最好的基督徒就是能夠在個人禱告時成為一個最偉大的獨白者。
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God and a scourge for satan.

John Bunyan

禱告是靈魂的盾牌、獻給上帝犧牲以及撒旦身上的鞭苔。
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God.  Prayer is a greater work for God.

Thomas Chalmers

禱告不能讓我們為上帝做甚麼了不起的事。對上帝而言，禱告本身就是一件了不起的事。
To speak for God to men is a sacred and responsible task.  To speak for men to God is not less responsible and is more solemn.

Robert Dabney

為上帝向人說話是神聖的重責大任。而為人向上帝說話絲毫不減其重要性而且更形神聖。
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray.

S. D. Gordon

任何人能為上帝及他人做的最大事就是禱告。
To pray without labouring is to mock God; to labour without prayer is to rob God of his glory.

Robert Haldane

禱告而不工作是愚弄上帝；工作而不禱告是竊取上帝的榮耀。
As long as we continue living we must continue praying.

Matthew Henry

只要我們繼續活著，我們的禱告就繼續不斷。
As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

Martin Luther

就像裁縫的工作是做衣服，補鞋匠的工作是修補鞋子，基督徒的工作就是禱告。
There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

對一個本性不改的人而言，沒有甚麼比禱告更令他厭煩的。
To know how to speak to God is more important than knowing how to speak to men.

Andrew Murray

知道如何對上帝說話比知道如何對人說話重要。
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy.

Novalis

禱告對宗教的重要性，正如同思想對哲學的重要性。
I am only as tall as I am on my knee.

Stephen Olford

我的身高就是當我跪著的高度。
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

A. W. Pink

衡量我們對別人的愛大部分取決於我們為他們禱告的頻率及熱切程度。
If we can bring our woes before God in prayer we have done the best possible thing.

Willliam S. Plumer

如果我們能在禱告終將仇敵帶到上帝面前，我們就是做了我們能做的最棒的事情。
Satan is far more anxious to keep us off our knees than he is to keep us off our feet.

Ivor Powell

撒旦急於讓我們離開跪下的膝蓋遠勝過叫我們離開奔走的雙腳。
No man is greater than his prayer life.

Leonard Ravenhill

沒有一個人能大過他的禱告生活。
Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

J. C. Ryle

禱告是真正基督教最負生命力的氣息。
If you are too bust to pray then you are too busy.

W. E. Sangster

當你太忙於禱告時，你才真的很忙。
Prayer meeting are the throbbing machinery of the church.

C. H. Spurgeon

禱告會是教會的機器顫動聲音。
We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

C. H. Spurgeon

除非等到在基督徒心目中禱告會佔有極重要的位置，否則我們不應該奢望教會會變得更好。
If we ever forget our basic charter - 'My house is a house prayer' - we might as well as shut the church doors.

James S. Stewart

如果我們忘記我們的基本憲章 - 「我的殿是禱告的殿」 - 我們可能會使教會關上大門。
A prayerless Christian should be a non-existent species.

Geoff Treasure

一個不禱告的基督徒應該是不存在的物種。
It is significant that there is no record of the Lord teaching his disciples how to preach; but he took time to teach them how to pray and how not to pray.

L. A. T. Van Dooren

饒有興味的是沒有任何主教導祂的門徒講道的記載；然而主卻花不少時間教導門徒如何禱告。
God does nothing but in answer to prayer.

John Wesley

上帝除了回覆禱告外不做別的。
Prayer should be fundamental, not supplemental.

William J. C. White

禱告是主要的，而不是補充而已。
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

Octavius Winslow

禱告是更新心靈的脈搏；它那恆久不變的跳動是屬靈生命的測試及衡量標準。