跟找你闲谈的人讲论死亡、审判及其他严肃的话题,引起他们的注意,即使他们装聋,仍能利己益人,来者或是受益而去,或者以后不会再浪费你的时间。
爵思日常┃4月8日
爵思日常┃4月7日
太频繁的惩罚表示管理欠耐心, 并非渴望纪律。 Too frequent punishment is a sign of a rule that is impatient rather than desirous of discipline.
爵思日常┃4月6日
除非爱惜藉祂宝血救赎的灵魂, 没有人能自称为基督的朋友。 No one should call himself a friend of Christ unless he cherishes those souls that Christ redeemed by the shedding of his Blood.
爵思日常┃4月5日
为服侍天主而获得人的善意归依,须为一切人成为一切,因近似的习性与兴趣能赚得人心。 To gain men’s goodwill in God’s service we must become all things to all men; for men’s hearts are gained by nothing so much as by similarity of habits and interests.
爵思日常┃4月4日
唯一正确的野心就是爱天主, 并以更爱祂作为报酬。 There is but one right kind of ambition: to love God, and as the reward of loving him, to love him more.
爵思日常┃4月3日
和人交谈,我们应缓于说话,耐心聆听,对下属更需如此。须洗耳恭听近人说话,直至其完全表达心声为止。
爵思日常┃4月2日
为使人的天赋恩赐用于救赎灵魂, 内在德行必须成为推动行善的力量。 In order that a man’s natural gifts may be put to account for the salvation of souls, they must be set in motion by interior virtue, and strength obtained thereby for doing things well.
爵思日常┃4月1日
纨绔子弟应学习自我贬抑, 轻视以为超群出众为比克己苦身更好。 Those who are elegant and foppish should be taught contempt of self and of every kind of preeminence in preference to and before bodily mortification.
爵思日常┃3月31日
为侍奉天主而忘记自己及个人福利的人,天主自会照料。 The man who forgets himself and his own welfare for God’s service will have God to look after him.
爵思日常┃3月30日
未经雕琢的木头没法想到会成为塑像杰作,雕塑家却胸有成竹。同样,大多数人对基督信仰生活一窍不通,并不明白天主能塑造他们成圣,直至自己全然委顺于全能艺术大师之手。
爵思日常┃3月29日
过于畏惧别人,便不能为主做大事。 He who fears men much will never do anything great for God.
爵思日常┃3月28日
当我仰望天国时,世界俗臭难耐! How earth stinks in my nostrils when I look up to heaven!