SELF - DENIAL

拒絕自己

It is easier to give we have than to give ourselves.

給予我們所有的比給予我們自己容易得多。

When self is not negated, it is necessarily worshipped.

若非否定自我,就必定是崇拜自我。

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

Richard Baxter

當肉體的享樂及興趣先被拒絕,就已經解除一半死亡的武裝了。

All great virtues bear the imprint of self-denial.

William E. Channing

所有偉大德行都有拒絕自我的印記。

As a man goes down in self he goes up in God.

. G. B. Cheever

當一個人在自我裡沈淪時,他就在上帝裡高昇。

Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of his!

Jim Elliot

確確實實的,那些明白耶和華大愛心腸的人必須拒絕自己的愛好分享祂所彰顯的愛。

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

Matthew Henry

基督學校的第一件功課就是拒絕自己。

They that deny themselves for Christ shall enjoy themselves in Christ.

J. M. Mason

為基督拒絕自己的人必在基督裡享受自己。

There is a great difference between denying yourself things and denying yourself.

Adrian Roger

拒絕你自己的東西跟拒絕你自己可是大相逕庭。

Self-emptiness prepares for spiritual fulness.

Richard Sibbes

倒空自己好預備得著屬靈的滿足。

Self-denial is indispensable to the enjoyment of religious peace and comfort.

J. H. Thornwell

拒絕自我是享受信仰平安舒適不可或缺的條件。

There is a sweet theology of the heart that is only learned in the school of renunciation.

A. W. Tozer

在內心中的美好神學只能在克己的學校學到。