| SUFFERING See also:Sickness; Trails | 苦難 |
| God would sooner we had holy pain than unholy
pleasure. 我們在聖潔苦難中經歷上帝比在不聖潔的享樂中容易。 |
| Pain and suffering are not
necessarily signs of God's anger; they may be exactly the opposite. 痛楚與受苦並不一定是上帝憤怒的記號；可能正好相反。 |
| God sometimes has to put us on our backs in order to
make us look up. 有時候上帝需要加重我們的負擔好讓我們抬頭仰望。 |
| The face of Jesus must be
very near our own when the thorns from his crown of suffering are pressing our brow and
hurting us. 當耶穌頭上苦難冠冕的荊棘貼近我們眉頭並刺痛我們，那表示我們十分靠近耶穌的臉龐。 |
| We can sometimes see more through a tear than
through a telescope. 有時候透過淚珠看清的東西多過望遠鏡看到的。 |
| There is as much difference
between the sufferings of the saints and those of the ungodly as there is between the
cords with which an executioner pinions a condemned malefactor and the bandages wherewith
a tender surgeon binds his patient. John Arrowsmith 聖徒與不敬虔的人受苦的天大差別就像是執行死刑者處死罪犯的繩索與外科醫生細心包紮病人繃帶。 |
| Suffering times are teaching times. William Bridge 苦難時間是教誨的時間。 |
| Suffering times are a
Christian's harvest times. William Brooks 受苦的時間也是基督徒豐收時間。 |
| Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;
the most massive characters are seared with scars. E. H. Chapin 受苦能讓堅強的靈魂顯明；最明顯的特徵就是那傷口痊癒的疤痕。 |
| The soul would have no
rainbow had the eye no tears. John Vance Cheney 眼中無淚珠，靈魂無彩虹。 |
| Sufferings are but as little chips of the cross. Joseph Church 受苦只是十字架上的一片小木屑而已。 |
| God sometimes washes the
eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright his providence and his
commandments. T. L. Cuyler 有時候上帝以眼淚洗滌孩子的雙眼，好讓他們能看清楚祂的眷顧及誡命。 |
| Suffering prepares us for glory. David Kingdon 受苦預備我們承受榮耀。 |
| God whispers to us in health
and prosperity, but, being hard of hearing, we fail to hear God's voice in both.
Whereupon God turns up the amplifier by means of suffering. Then his voice booms. C. S. Lewis 上帝在健康及成功中向我們耳語，但很難聽見，在兩者之中我們都聽不到上帝的聲音。然而就著受苦上帝將音量增強，祂的聲音聽起來如雷貫耳。 |
| The real problem is not why some pious, humble,
believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. Lewis 真正的問題不是虔誠、謙卑、篤信的人會遭遇苦難，而是怎麼有些人不會遭遇。 |
| There is nothing the body
suffers that the soul may not profit by. George Meredith 沒有身體受苦而靈魂不得益處的。 |
| Good men are often great sufferers. William S. Plumer 好人也是常經歷苦難的人。 |
| Saints should fear every
sin, but no sufferings. Vavasor Powell 聖徒畏懼任何罪惡，卻不畏懼苦難。 |
| There are no gains without pains. J. C. Ryle 沒有不經痛苦的收穫。 |
| Outward weaknesses are oft a
means to restrain men from inward evils. God usually sanctifies the pains and griefs
of his servants to make them better. Richard Sibbes 外在的軟弱常是保守人脫離內在邪惡的工具。上帝通常聖化祂僕人的痛苦與悲傷好讓他們變得更好。 |
| I would...suggest that some form of suffering is
virtually indispensable to holiness. John R. W. Stott 有些苦難是達到聖潔不可或缺的。 |
| A man is not known by his
effervescence but by the amount of real suffering he can stand. C. T. Studd 認識一個人不是藉著他令人愉快的特質，而是藉著他能忍受多少真正的苦難。 |
| The Bible has a great deal to say about suffering
and most of it is encouraging. A. W. Tozer 聖經提到不少受苦的事情，其中大部分是令人大受鼓舞的。 |
| Calvary is God's great proof
that suffering in the will of God always leads to glory. Warren Wiersbe 加略山是上帝的證據好證明在上帝心意中苦難經常領人達到榮耀。 |