| TRIALS - Blessing See also:Pain; Sickness; Suffering | 試煉 - 祝福 |
| I have learned more from life's trails than from its
triumphs. 我從生活試煉得到的超過從勝利得到的。 |
| The trials of life are meant
to make us better, not bitter. 生活中的試煉是讓我們變得更好而不是更痛苦的工具。 |
| Times of affliction are usually gaining times to
God's people. Joseph Alleine 苦難之日常是上帝百姓收穫之日。 |
| Affliction is God's shepherd
dog to drive us back to the fold. 苦難是驅趕我們回到欄中的上帝牧羊犬。 |
| Fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong men. 火試驗金子，艱難試驗人心。 |
| Our great Teacher writes
many a bright lesson on the blackboard of affliction. 我們偉大的老師在苦難的黑板上寫了不少明亮的功課。 |
| The water that dashes against the wheel keeps the
mill going; so trial keeps grace in use and motion. 水的衝擊轉動輪子好讓磨子啟動；試煉同樣讓恩典產生作用。 |
| The purpose of the tests of
life are to make, not break us. Maltbie Babcock 生命試煉的目的在建造而不是破壞我們。 |
| Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
adversity is the blessing of the new. Francis Bacan 富庶是舊約的祝福；苦難則是新約的祝福。 |
| Night brings out stars as
sorrow shows us truths. Gamaiel Bailey 黑夜帶來點點繁星，憂傷讓我們看見真理。 |
| The brook would lose its song if you removed the
rocks. Fred Beck 小河將會失去歌聲，如果你移除溪中石頭。 |
| Troubles are often the tools
by which God fashions us for better things. Henry Ward Beecher 苦難通常是上帝讓我們得以承受更美福祉的工具。 |
| Affliction is an excellent comment upon the
Scriptures. Thomas Brooks 苦難是聖經最佳的註釋。 |
| Affliction are but as a dark
entry into our Father's house. Thomas Brooks 苦難就是進入父神家中的秘密通道。 |
| Affliction ripen the saint's graces. Thomas Brooks 苦難使聖徒的恩賜成熟。 |
| The grand design of God in
all the afflictions that befall his people is to bring them nearer and closer to himself. Thomas Brooks 上帝在所有臨到祂百姓的苦難之計畫就是帶領他們更親近祂。 |
| Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better. John Bunyan 遭受擊打為的是能變得更好。 |
| As threshing separates the
wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Richard E. Burton 如同打穀機分開麥子與糠秕，苦難也是如此煉淨美德。 |
| Afflictions ought ever to be estimated by their end. John Calvin 苦難應該由它的結果來衡量。 |
| The brightest crowns that
are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the
furnace of tribulation. E. H. Chapin 天上戴的最明亮冠冕是經過苦難熔爐試煉、融化、磨光並且美化的。 |
| We often learn more under the rod that strikes us,
than under the staff that comforts us. Stephen Charnock 我們在鞭打我們的鞭子下學到的常多過在安慰我們牧杖下學到的。 |
| In prosperity, our friends
know us; in adversity we know our friends. Churcton Collins 在富庶中，我們的朋友認識我們；在苦難中，我們認識我們的朋友。 |
| Afflictions...are as necessary for our waftage to
heaven as water is to carry the ship to the port. William Gurnall 苦難...如同水流讓船入港，是引領我們進入天堂必須的潮水。 |
| God sometimes snuffs out our
brightest candle that we may look up to his eternal stars. Vance Havner 有時候上帝吹熄最亮的蠟燭好讓我們抬頭仰望祂永恆的繁星。 |
| The Lord doesn't take us into deep water to drown us
but to develop us. Irv Hedstrom 主帶我們到水深之處不是要淹死我們而是造就我們。 |
| Sanctified afflictions are
spiritual promotions. Matthew Henry 聖潔的苦難是屬靈的提升。 |
| Sometimes God teaches us effectually to know the
worth of mercies by the want of them and whets our appetite for the means of grace by
cutting us short in those means. Matthew Henry 有時候上帝有效的藉著缺乏憐憫教導我們知道憐憫的價值，並藉著讓我們缺乏恩具而刺激我們對恩具的胃口。 |
| Let prosperity be as oil to
the wheels of obedience and affliction as wind to the sails of prayers. Philip Henry 讓富庶成為順服輪子的潤滑油，苦難成為吹動禱告船帆的風。 |
| Affliction is the medicine of the mind. John P. K. Henshaw 苦難是心靈良藥。 |
| The great blows of God are
designed to make a man stand up. John Hercus 上帝的大風是為了讓人站起來。 |
| As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the
godly are bettered by the worse. William Jenkyn 正如惡人被好東西所傷，敬虔人則藉不好的事情得益。 |
| Only in the hot furnace of
affliction do we as Christians let go of the dross to which, in our foolishness, we
ardently cling. David Kingdon 只有在炙熱的苦難熔爐中，基督徒才能去除在愚昧中拒絕分開的殘渣。 |
| The school of trial best discloses the hidden
vileness of the heart and the vast riches of a Saviour's grace. Henry Law 試煉的學校最適合顯露內心隱藏的卑鄙以及何等豐富的救主恩典。 |
| I never knew the meaning of
God's Word until I came into affliction. Martin Luther 我從不知道上帝話語的意義直到我進入苦難試煉。 |
| Affliction is the whetstone of prayer and obedience. Edward Marbury 苦難是禱告及順服的磨石刀。 |
| Trouble is the structural
steel that goes into character-building. Douglas Meador 苦難是建造品格的建築鋼材。 |
| Affliction is the school in which great virtues are
acquired, in which great characters are formed. Hannah More 苦難是習得偉大美德、塑造偉大品格的學校。 |
| One breath of paradise will
extinguish all the adverse winds of earth. A. W. Pink 來自樂園輕輕的氣息能消除世上所有苦難之風。 |
| Afflictions often possess remarkable power to remind
us of our sins. William S. Plumer 苦難經常擁有提醒內心罪惡的奇妙能力。 |
| It is a blessed thing when
our trials cure our earnest love for things that perish. William S. Plumer 當試煉矯正我們對必朽之物的熱愛是何等蒙福的事。 |
| By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise
might have spoiled us - when he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. John Powell 藉著苦難上帝敗壞其他事物寵壞我們的部分 - 當上帝讓這世界變得燙熱時，我們就會放手。 |
| I have never met with single
instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good - I have never
heard of a Christian on his deathbed complaining of his affliction. Alexander M. Proudfit 我從未看過一個苦難的結局不是對我有益的 - 我從未聽過一位基督徒在臨死前埋怨遭遇的苦難。 |
| Grace grows best in the winter. Samuel Rutherford 恩典在冬天長得最好。 |
| Affliction is a searching
wind which strips the leaves off the trees and brings to light the bird's nests. J. C. Ryle 苦難是銳利的風能撥開樹葉，讓光線照著鳥巢。 |
| Afflictions should be the spiritual wings of the
soul. Richard Sibbes 苦難是靈魂的屬靈雙翼。 |
| After conversion we need
bruising, to see that we live by mercy. Richard Sibbes 信主之後我們需要壓傷，好知道我們靠憐憫而活。 |
| As Jacob was blessed and halted both at one time, so
a man may be blessed and afflicted both together. Henry Smith 正如雅各同時蒙福與變跛，一個人或許也會同時蒙福與受苦。 |
| In shunning a trial we are
seeking to avoid a blessing. C. H. Spurgeon 在規避試煉之時，我們也正尋求規避一個祝福。 |
| Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well,
when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned
in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of. C. H. Spurgeon 在高山上看不見的星星可能只在水井深處看見。同樣的，許多在順境中學不到的功課卻可在逆境中學到。 |
| The anvil, the fire and the
hammer are the making of us. C. H. Spurgeon 鐵砧、烈火與鐵鎚都為造就我們。 |
| There are some of your graces which would never be
discovered if it were not for your trials. C. H. Spurgeon 如果不是試煉，有些恩典你永難發現。 |
| Jesus was transfigured on
the hilltop, but he transforms us in the valley. J. Charles Stern 耶穌在山上變貌，但祂在山谷中使我們變貌。 |
| It takes a world with trouble in it to train men for
their high calling as sons of God and to carve upon the soul the lineaments of the face of
Christ. J. S. Steward 世界充滿苦難為的是訓練人好成為上帝兒子並雕削靈魂好有基督臉孔的輪廓。 |
| A sanctified person, like
silver bell, the harder he is smitten, the better be sounds. George Swinnock 一位聖潔的人，就像銀鐘一樣，敲得越重，聲音越好聽。 |
| We are safer in the storm God sends us than in a
clam when we are befriended by the world. James Taylor 我們在上帝所差風暴中的安穩勝過與世為友的平靜。 |
| For a Christian, even the
valleys are on higher ground. D. Reginald Thomas 對基督徒而言，低谷都能成高原。 |
| Better be preserved in brine than rot in honey. John Trapp 在鹽水中得保存好過在蜜中腐爛。 |
| Troubles are free
school-master. John Trapp 苦難是免費的老師。 |
| Is it any injustice in God to put his gold into the
furnace to purify it? Thomas Watson 對上帝而言，將祂的金子放進熔爐精鍊有甚麼不對呢？ |
| Jonah was sent into the
whale's belly to make his sermon for Nineveh. Thomas Watson 約拿被送進大魚的肚子好寫出對尼尼微傳講的信息。 |
| The whale that swallowed Jonah was the means of
bringing him safe to land. Thomas Watson 吞食約拿的大魚是將他平安送上岸的工具。 |
| Whilst I continue on this
side of eternity, I never expect to be free from trials, only to change them. For it
is necessary to heal the pride of my heart that such should come. George Whitefield 當我持續在永生這邊，我永不必期待脫離試煉，我只能改變試煉。因為必須使用這些試煉醫治我內心必然生發的驕傲。 |
| Among my list of blessings infinite stands this the
foremost - that my heart has bled. Edward Young 在我蒙福的明細中，這一條永遠列在最前面 - 我的心在滴血。 |
| Adversity is the midwife of genius. 逆境是天才的接生婆。 |
| On the timberline of the
mountain, where the storms beat in full fury, we find the sturdiest frees the hearty
veterans of the ten thousand blasts. In the hothouse is produced the puny plant that fades
in a day. 在山領的森林線上，暴風雨抽擊得最兇猛的地方，我們發現了最堅強的樹木，身經萬次厲 風的矍鑠老將。在溫室中產生了孅弱的植物，一天內便告凋謝。 |
| Adversity is hard to bear, but it tries the souls
and Strengthens it. 逆境很難以忍受，可是卻試探、加強了靈魂。 |
| Publicity attracts friends,
prosperity attaches friends, but adversity is the acid test of true friendship. 盛名招來朋輩，成功自有友人，唯有逆境才是對金石情誼的嚴酷考驗。 |