| PREACHING and PREACHERS - the Preacher's Life | 傳道與傳道人 - 傳道人的生活 |
| Accuracy in exegesis is no substitute for reality in
experience. 正確的解經並不能取代實際的生活經驗。 |
| We must study as hard how to
live well as how to preach well. Richard Baxter 我們必須努力留心如何生活有力以及傳道有力。 |
| Study universal holiness of life. Your whole
usefulness depends on this. Your sermons last but an hour or two; your life
preachers all the week. E. M. Bounds 留心活出全面聖潔的生活，你全部的用處根基其上。你的信息只能持續一兩個鐘頭；但你的生活整個禮拜都在宣講信息。 |
| How easy is pen-and-paper
piety! I will not say it costs nothing; but it is far cheaper to work one's head
than one's heart to goodness. I can write a hundred meditation sooner than subdue
the least sin in my soul. Thomas Fuller 紙與筆的敬虔何等容易！我不會說那全無益處；可是要一個人腦子思想良善比內心活出良善便宜太多了。我能夠立刻寫出千百發人深省的文章遠勝克服我心靈中最小的罪。 |
| The ministry will not grace the man; the man may
disgrace the ministry. Joseph Hall 牧者身份不會讓人增光；但人卻會使牧者身份顏面盡失。 |
| A man might cast a devil out
of others and yet have a devil, may be a devil himself. Matthew Henry 一個人或許能趕出他人的魔鬼但魔鬼卻依舊存在，或許驅魔者本身就是魔鬼。 |
| The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric. Richard Hooker 敬虔傳道人的生活就是可見的宣道。 |
| An office-bearer who wants
something other than to obey his King is unfit to bear his office. Abraham Kuyper 一個公務員若貪圖他物遠勝服從他的王，就無法適任他的職位。 |
| The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified
man. G. Campbell Morgan 宣講十字架的人必須是曾被釘在十字架上的人。 |
| A prepared messenger is more
important than a prepared message. Robert Munger 預備妥當的信差遠比預備妥當的信息來得重要。 |
| We do not deal in unfelt truths, but we find
ourselves the solid consolation in the gospel which we encourage others to expect from it. John Newton 我們可不是閒談不可抓摸的真理，而是找到福音中堅定可靠的安慰並鼓勵別人同樣得著這樣的安慰。 |
| If a man teach uprightly and
walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of
his doctrine. John Owen 如果一個人教導起來中規中矩，待人處事卻是詭詐不誠實，人們因他黑暗生活跌倒的遠超過在他信仰光明中得造就的。 |
| A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the
truth. Richard Sibbes 一個人縱使是假先知也能口吐真言。 |
| What a dreadful thing it
would be for me if I should be ignorant of the power of the truth which I am preparing to
proclaiming. John Wesley 對我而言，那是多麼可怕的事情！如果我忽視我自己正要準備宣講的這個真理的能力。 |
| Our ministry is as our heart is. No man rises
much above the level of his own habitual godliness. Thomas Wilson 我們的心如何我們的事奉就如何。沒有一個人的事奉會高過他平常的敬虔生活。 |
| It takes a lifetime to
prepare a sermon because it takes a lifetime to prepare a man of God. Arthur Skevington Wood 預備一篇講章需要一生工夫因為裝備上帝的人也是一輩子的工夫。 |