| SINFUL NATURE See also:Depravity; Guilt; Man - a Sinner; Sin | 罪惡本質 |
| we all carry about with us material that Satan can
work upon. 我們都帶著撒旦能夠動工的材料。 |
| The greatest struggles that
life can know are not within the unsaved, but within the saved. Donald Grey Barnhouse 生命最大的掙扎並不在未得救的人之內，而是在得救之人。 |
| Ourselves are the greatest snares to ourselves. Richard Baxter 我們自己是自己的最大陷阱。 |
| Sin in a wicked man is like
poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. Thomas Brooks 惡人心中的罪就如同毒蛇的毒液；那是深藏於本性之中。 |
| The man without a navel still lives in me. Thomas Brooks 那位沒有生身之父（沒有肚臍）的惡者仍住在我裡面。 |
| The procuring cause of our
misery is in ourselves. John Calvin 促成我們痛苦的因由就在我們裡面。 |
| Nothing leads to self-repudiation so much as
spiritual meditation on the corruption and wickedness of your heart. Walter J. Chantry 沒有一件事情像屬靈的默想自己心中敗壞與邪惡能導致我們與那些惡事分開。 |
| All the old primitive sins
are not dead, but are crouching in the dark corners of our modern hearts. Carl Gustav Jung 所有的原始罪惡並未死去，而是蹲伏在我們現代心靈中晦暗的角落。 |
| In youth, mid-age, and now after many battles, I
find nothing in me but vanity and corruption. John Knox 經歷了青年、中年，如今經歷許多征戰，在我裡面除了空虛敗壞外，空無一物。 |
| I more fear what is within
me than what comes from without. John Owen 我懼怕出自我內心的勝於來自外界的。 |
| Whosoever contends against indwelling sin shall know
and find that it is present with them, that it is powerful in them. John Owen 任何一位與內心常存罪惡對抗的人，應該知道並發現這罪與他們共存並且強而有力。 |
| Impress the young convert
from the very beginning with the conviction that God has called him into his kingdom to
struggle with the corruptions of his heart. William B. Sprague 一開始就要讓初信者銘記這樣的信念，上帝呼召人進入祂的國度，以對抗他內心的敗壞。 |
| There may be persons who can always glide along like
a tramcar on rails without a solitary jerk, but I find that I have a vile nature to
contend with, and spiritual life is a struggle with me. I have to fight from day to
day with inbred corruption, coldness, deadness, barrenness, and if it were not for my Lord
Jesus Christ my heart would be as dry as the heart of the damned. C. H. Spurgeon] 或許有一個人能像鐵道上的煤車不需要任何助力就能自動滑行，可是我發現我需要與可恥的本性爭鬥，而且有一個屬靈的生命與我一起爭鬥。我必須日復一日和與生俱來的敗壞、冷漠、死亡、荒蕪征戰。如果不是為我的主耶穌基督征戰，我的心將如同受譴責的一般乾涸。 |
| Our old nature is no more
extinct than the devil; but God's will is that the dominion of both should be broken. John R. W. Stott 我們的老舊本性與魔鬼一樣並未絕跡；然而上帝的心意就是要破碎這兩者的轄制。 |
| Sins are because sin is. A. W. Tozer 無數罪惡延伸自單一的罪。 |
| I see no fault that I might
not have committed myself. Johan Von Goethe 我看不到一個我沒有參與的罪惡。 |
| Original sin is a sea that will not, in this life,
be dried up. Thomas Watson 原罪就像生命的海洋是永不乾涸的。 |
| Believers are no more able
now of themselves to think one good thoughts, to form one good thought, to form one good
desire, to speak one good word, or to do one good work, than before they were justified. John Wesley 在獲得稱義之前，信徒無法自己想到一個好念頭、一個好主意、一個好的希望、說一句好話或做一件好事。 |
| Worst of all my foes, I fear the enemy within. John Wesley 在我眾多仇敵之中，我懼怕的是裡面這位。 |