世上沒有野獸比魔鬼更執著、激烈、兇猛地傷害人, 為實現牠要毀滅我們的惡毒及頑固的渴望。 There is no wild beast on earth fiercer, keener, or more persistent in injuring man than the devil, that he may fulfill the desire of his malicious and obstinate mind for our destruction.
爵思日常┃6月18日
爵思日常┃6月17日
目標既定,竭力跟隨, 踏上成全之路,達到圓滿。 We must strive as hard as we can to lay hold of that we follow after, and having entered the way of perfection, attain to what is most perfect.
爵思日常┃6月16日
看哪!每個人仍對天主的無知,令人深感憂傷! Behold, with heartfelt and deep sorrow, in what great ignorance of God everyone remains!
爵思日常┃6月15日
光以意志服從的人,理智仍未順服, 只過著跛腳的修道生活。 Those who obey with the will alone, while their reason is still unsubdued, walk lamely in the religious life.
爵思日常┃6月14日
主,除祢以外,我需要甚麼? 我還能要甚麼? Lord, what do I want, what can I want, apart from thee?
爵思日常┃6月13日
迫害是煽動德行火焰的風箱:天主容許迫害,因為缺少迫害,我們的力量將漸次寂滅, 無法正確行事。 Persecution is the bellows that fans the flame of our virtue: if it were lacking—which God forbid—our strength would die away and not perform its task rightly.
爵思日常┃6月11日
由於大自然的豐厚恩賜,運氣好的世俗人, 亦同樣更成功地熱心顯露主的光榮。 Those who in the world would, through nature’s bounty, have met with the best fortune have likewise greater success in zealously showing forth the glory of God.
爵思日常┃6月10日
為得救而抵抗魔鬼,必須利用魔鬼濫用於毀滅我們的武器對付牠。 We must use the same weapons against the devil for our salvation as he abuses for our destruction.
爵思日常┃6月9日
理應禁止超越規定的公開克己苦身; 勿忘聽命勝過犧牲,也避免我們愚妄地自吹自擂。
爵思日常┃6月8日
當事事順遂時,要小心提防, 以免並非一切都像事奉天主那麼好。 When everything goes favorably, beware lest all is not so well as it might be with the service of God.
爵思日常┃6月7日
為賺得所有人,明智的捕人漁夫該使自己適應一切,儘管嘗試成功不大。 The wise fisher of men, in order to gain all, ought to attune himself to all, even though his attempts have small success.
爵思日常┃6月6日
我們曾濫用身心的力量,違背天主的法律行事, 現藉著補贖,重新活在恩寵中,讓我們用同樣的力量,改善生命。 As we have made a bad use of the powers of our body and mind in acting against God’s law, so, now that by penance we have been restored to grace, let us use the same powers to amend our lives.