Quotation from: Mother Teresa

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. 

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. 

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. 

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. 

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. 

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. 

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

                          ~ Mother Teresa

2013 CLPC Big Read

馬太福音 4

^{4 耶穌卻回答說：經上記著說：人活著，不是單靠食物，乃是靠神口裡所出的一切話。
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.}

⁷ 耶穌對他說：經上又記著說：不可試探主─你的神。
⁷ Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.

¹⁰ 耶穌說：撒但（撒但就是抵擋的意思，乃魔鬼的別名），退去罷！因為經上記著說：當拜主你的神，單要事奉他。
¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.

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³ 虛心的人有福了！因為天國是他們的。
³ Blessed are the poor in spirit,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

⁴ 哀慟的人有福了！因為他們必得安慰。
⁴ Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted.

⁵ 溫柔的人有福了！因為他們必承受地土。
⁵ Blessed are the meek,
    for they will inherit the earth.

⁶ 飢渴慕義的人有福了！因為他們必得飽足。
⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
    for they will be filled.

⁷ 憐恤人的人有福了！因為他們必蒙憐恤。
⁷ Blessed are the merciful,
    for they will be shown mercy.

⁸ 清心的人有福了！因為他們必得見神。
⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart,
    for they will see God.

⁹ 使人和睦的人有福了！因為他們必稱為神的兒子。
⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers,
    for they will be called children of God.

¹⁰ 為義受逼迫的人有福了！因為天國是他們的。
¹⁰ Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Book: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"The real Son of God is at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself. He is beginning, so to speak, to "inject" His kind of life and thought, His Zoe, into you; beginning to turn the tin soldier into live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin."

from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

Book: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"You see what is happening. The Christ Himself, the Son of God who is man (just like you) and God (just like His Father) is actually at your side and is already at that moment beginning to turn your pretence into reality."

from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

Book: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

on How to be like Christ:

"...and, whatever else you say, you will probably say the Lord's Prayer.
Its very first words are Our Father. do you now see what those words mean? They mean quite frankly, that you are putting yourself in the place of a son of God. To put it bluntly, you are dressing up as Christ. If you like, you are pretending."

from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

Book: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"...I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions, but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner."

from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

Book: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"It made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven. there are no two ways about it. What are we to do?"

from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis