Category: Odds & Ends

“The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has been made good by the supernatural grace of God.”

“No man can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations; his teachings are truths that can only be interpreted by the disposition he puts in.” – Oswald Chambers

“Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.” – Rick Warren

“When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.” — A. W. Tozer

“一个门徒的特征不是他做了好事，而是因为他已经被上帝的超自然恩典变得善良，所以他的动机本身就是善良的。”

“没有人能通过遵守法律让自己变得纯洁。耶稣基督不提供规章制度；他的教导是真理，只能通过他所赋予的心性来理解。”——奥斯瓦尔德·张伯伦

“基督的样式不是通过模仿产生的，而是通过内住实现的。” – 里克·沃伦

“当我明白发生在我身上的一切都是为了让我更像基督时，这解决了很多焦虑。” — A. W. 托泽

“It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.” — G. K. Chesterton

“进化论者抱怨，一个公认不可思议的上帝凭空创造万物是荒谬的，然后却假装无中生有更可思议，这种说法本身就是荒谬的。” — G. K. 切斯特顿

“The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.” — Brennan Manning

Jesus is working “to turn you into the same kind of thing as himself . . . beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin.” – C. S. Lewis

耶稣正在努力“把你变成和他一样的东西……开始把锡制的士兵变成活生生的人。你不喜欢的那部分，就是仍然是锡的那部分。”——C. S. 路易斯

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense.

What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but he is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. – C. S. Lewis

想象你自己是一所活着的房子。上帝进来重建这所房子。起初，也许你能理解他在做什么。他在修理排水管、修补屋顶的漏水等等：你知道这些工作需要做，所以你并不感到惊讶。但不久之后，他开始以一种令人极度痛苦且似乎毫无道理的方式拆动房子。

他到底在搞什么啊? 原因是，他建的房子跟你想象的完全不一样——这里加个新翼，那里多建一层，盖塔楼，做庭院。你以为你会被安置在一个像样的小屋里，但他实际上在建一座宫殿。他打算自己搬进去住。– C. S. 路易斯