SICKNESS 病痛

All disease is primarily the result of sin, but not always directly so.

所有疾病基本上都從罪而來，只不過並不是每次都是直接與罪有關。

Sickness shows us what we are.

病痛讓我們看清自己。

Sickness, when sanctified, teaches us four things: the vanity of the world, the vileness of sin, the helplessness of man and the preciousness of Christ.

病痛經過聖化之後，可以教導我們四件功課：世界的空虛、罪惡的卑鄙、人的無助以及基督的珍貴。

Sometimes Christ sees that we need the sickness for the good of our souls more than the healing for ease of our bodies.

Matthew Henry

有時候，基督認為我們需要使心靈得著益處的疾病，勝過使身體得著舒適的醫治。

Medical science recognizes that emotions such as fear, sorrow, envy, resentment and hatred are responsible for the majority of our sickness. Estimates vary from 60% to nearly 100%.

S. I. McMillen

醫藥科學發現像是恐懼、憂傷、嫉妒、苦毒、怨恨等情緒是疾病的主因。差不多60％到100％的疾病歸因於這樣的情緒。

The time of sickness is a time of purging from that defilement we gathered in our health...That is a good sickness which tends to the health of the soul.

Richard Sibbes

疾病的時間正是洗滌我們身體累積污染之物的時間...這是好的疾病是對我們心靈健康有益的。

I venture to say that the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is healthy, with the exception of sickness. Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

C. H. Spurgeon

我敢大膽的，除了疾病以外，上帝能給我們的世間最大福氣就是健康。疾病比健康還經常被用來臻益上帝聖徒。

I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my weakness.

Abraham Wright

我藉著我的疾病得到補足、藉著我的貧窮得到豐富並就我的軟弱得到剛強。

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

健康並不等於沒有病痛。

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

健康不被重視直到病痛來臨。