2008年1月15日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：92
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 A man cannot receive spiritual knowledge except he be converted, and become as a little child. For only then does he experience that delight which belongs to the Kingdom of the Heavens. By ‘Kingdom of the Heavens’ the Scriptures mean spiritual divine vision. 人若是不皈依，不變得像個小孩子，他是不會獲得屬靈知識的。只有這樣，他才能體驗到天國的喜樂。聖經中「天國」意爲屬靈的神性默觀。 It [...]
2007年12月27日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：77
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 Know with certainty, therefore, that to stand is not within your power, nor does it pertain to your virtue, but it belongs to grace herself which carries you upon the palm of her hand, that you may not be alarmed. 因此，你要確知，你不是憑着你自己的力量而站立，也不是靠着自己的德行，而是靠那將你放在她的手掌中的恩寵本身，在她的手中我们不会受到慌懼。 Humility, even without works, [...]
2007年12月25日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：67
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 Silence is a mystery of the age to come, but words are instruments of this world. 靜默是來世的奧秘，而言語則是此世的工具。 The passions are like dogs accustomed to lick blood in butchers’ shops. When these are barred from what their habit feeds on, they stand in front of [...]
2007年12月22日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：88
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 As long as you have feet, run after work, before you are bound with that bond which cannot be loosed again once it is put on. As long as you have hands, stretch them out to Heaven in prayer, before your arms fall from their [...]
2007年12月21日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：61
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 The carnal man fears death like a beast fears slaughter. The rational man fears the judgement of God. But the man who has become a son is adorned by love and is not taught by the rod of fear; he says, ‘But I and my [...]
2007年12月20日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：75
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 A gift free of trials is a disaster to those who receive it. 未經誘惑而獲得的恩賜對領受它的人而言，是一種災禍。 To choose what is good belongs to the good volition of the man who desires it; but to realize the choice of the good volition belongs to God. 選擇行善在於渴望行善者的善意，而辨别（什麽才是）善的選擇則是上帝（的恩賜）。 His path [...]
2007年12月18日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：90
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 We should not be exceedingly grieved when we make a slip in some matter, but when we persist in it; for even the perfect often slip, but to persist therein is total death. 若是我們在某件事上失足跌倒了（意卽犯罪），我們不應過於悲傷；但是，如果我們不斷在某事上跌倒，則應爲之哀傷。因爲卽使是完人也常會跌倒，但是，固執於惡，則是全然的死亡。 There is no knowledge that is not impoverished, however rich it [...]
2007年11月30日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：75
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be like a sluggard. If you are not [...]
2007年11月14日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：64
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 Mercy and justice in one soul is like a man who worships God and the idols in one house. 在一個靈魂內具有仁慈與公義兩種品質就好比一個人在同一間房間裏敬拜上帝與偶像。 As grass and fire cannot coexist in one place, so justice and mercy can-not abide in one soul. 就如同草與火不能同時存在於一個地方，公義與仁慈也不能居於同一個靈魂內。 As a grain of sand cannot [...]
2007年11月9日 | 教父如是說 | 瀏覧：80
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS） Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies 摘自《神修訓話》 Do not approach the words of the mysteries contained in the divine Scriptures without prayer and beseeching God for help, but say: Lord, grant me to perceive the power in them! Reckon prayer to be the key to the true understanding of the divine Scriptures. [...]