和人交談,我們應緩於說話,耐心聆聽,對下屬更需如此。須洗耳恭聽近人說話,直至其完全表達心聲為止。
爵思日常┃4月3日
爵思日常┃4月1日
紈絝子弟應學習自我貶抑, 輕視以為超群出眾為比克己苦身更好。 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
為侍奉天主而忘記自己及個人福利的人,天主自會照料。 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
未經雕琢的木頭沒法想到會成為塑像傑作,雕塑家卻胸有成竹。同樣,大多數人對基督信仰生活一竅不通,並不明白天主能塑造他們成聖,直至自己全然委順於全能藝術大師之手。
爵思日常┃3月29日
過於畏懼別人,便不能為主做大事。 He who fears men much will never do anything great for God.
爵思日常┃3月28日
當我仰望天國時,世界俗臭難耐! How earth stinks in my nostrils when I look up to heaven!
爵思日常┃3月27日
聖神的喜樂使心靈歡暢, 超越一切受造之物。 No created thing can give rise to any gladness in the soul that is worthy of comparison with the joy of the Holy Ghost.
爵思日常┃3月26日
主,只需給我禰的愛及恩寵, 我心已足,再無他求。 Give me only thy love and thy grace, O Lord, and I am rich enough; and I ask for nothing more.
爵思日常┃3月25日
期待天主,只限於此: 與祂同在,心想事成。 We cannot expect too much from God, for with Him it is as easy to perform as to will.
爵思日常┃3月24日
安全獲得一丁點零星的好東西, 比冒著失落永生的危險賺到一百件更好。 It is far better to procure a mere morsel of some one good thing safely than to gain a hundred at the risk of your salvation.
爵思日常┃3月23日
今天的事今天做,切莫拖延到明天。 Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
爵思日常┃3月22日
如果天主只是給你一隻小狗作嚮導, 請勿抱怨,仍順從主命,懷著喜悅跟隨。 If the guide God chooses for you to follow were only a little dog, you should not complain, but at God’s command follow it willingly and gladly.