| SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | 社會責任 |
| A man ought to carry himself in the world as an
orange-tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden - swinging perfume from every
little censer it holds up to the air. Chrysostom 一個人活在世界上就要像一棵橘子樹，如果能在果園中來回行走 - 從每一個小小的香爐在空氣中散發出清香。 |
| Social service need not be
the 'social gospel'...It means doing something about...pain and suffering, for the sake of
Christian love, and not insinuating at every turn that what we do is in order to get
people into our churches and to take up our form of creed. Jose D. Fajardo 社會服務並不需等同於所謂的社會福音...這意味著為基督徒愛心的緣故為苦難的人們做些事情。這並不是為了討好人，好叫人進入我們的教會並接受我們的信仰。 |
| If God is God and man is made in his image, then
each man is significant. Os Guinness 如果上帝是上帝而人也是按照祂的形象照的，那麼每個人都是重要的。 |
| The Christian with social
concern must champion all those who need champions, not just those whose championing is
currently popular. Os Guinness 關懷社會的基督徒必須支持那些需要支持的人，而不是那些頗受擁戴的人。 |
| The church cannot be concerned with the redemption
of men in such a way that their becoming Christian means that they must withdraw from
God's creation. Paul Helm 教會不能關心人的救贖到認為他們成為基督徒意味他們需要抽離上帝創造的程度。 |
| To live as contemporary
Christians means at least this - to take account of the fact that our neighbours are made
in the image of God. Paul Helm 成為一個當代基督徒起碼意味著我們接受我們鄰居是按照上帝形象創造的事實。 |
| Church members who deny in fact their responsibility
for the needy in any part of the world are just as much guilty of heresy as those who deny
this or that article of the faith. W. A. Visser't Hooft 教會信徒若否認他們需要對世界任何角落需要的人負責的事實，那就像不信這、不信那的異教徒一樣。 |
| We have no liberty to say
that our sole responsibility as Christians is to preach the gospel of salvation, since
moral and social righteousness will then follow normally. John R. W. Stott 我們沒有自由宣稱身為基督徒唯一的責任就是傳揚救恩的福音，因為道德與社會公義的問題自然隨之而來。 |
| It's a mistake to assume that God is only interested
in religion. William Temple 以為上帝只關心宗教，這可是個誤會。 |
| The New Testament churches
did not have specific programmes of social reform in their community action, but they did
have Christ and the gospel so that social reform in the community inevitably came, and
with awful and positive power. Foy Valentine 新約聖經中的教會並沒有甚麼在社會實施的特別改革計畫，然而他們卻有基督與福音，無可避免的，社會改革自然隨之發生，並帶著令人敬畏、積極的能力。 |
| The gospel of Christ knows of no religion but
social, no holiness but social holiness. John Wesley 基督的福音不知道宗教只知道社會，不知道聖潔只知道社會的聖潔。 |