Meditate, practice, pray默想、实践、祈祷

Meditate, practice, pray

默想，实践，祈祷

(Thomas Brooks, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ”)

(托马斯·布鲁克斯，《基督不可测度的丰富》)

You must meditate and dwell upon what you read;
otherwise your pains and mine will be lost. The more any
man is in the contemplation of truth, the more deep and
firm impression is made upon his heart by truth. Heavenly
meditation brings out the sweetness that is in divine truths.
Not those who get most–but those who keep most, are
richest. So not those who hear most, or read most–but
those who meditate most, are most edified and enriched.

你必须默想并思考你所读的内容；
否则你我的努力都将白费。一个人
越是沉思真理，真理就在他心中
留下越深刻和坚定的印象。天国的
默想能带出神圣真理中的甘甜。
不是获得最多的人——而是保持最多的人，才是
最富有的。因此不是听得最多或读得最多的人——而是
默想最多的人，才是最受教益和丰富的。

You must also practice and live out what you read. To
read much and practice nothing–is to hunt much and catch
nothing. Ah! what cause have most to sigh, that they have
heard so much, and read so much–and yet done so little!

你也必须实践并活出你所读的内容。
多读而不实践——就如多打猎却一无所获。
啊！大多数人叹息的原因是，他们
听了那么多，读了那么多——却做得如此之少！

You must also pray over what you read. Many read much,
and pray little, and therefore get little by all they read. Galen
writes of a fish called Uranoscopos, that has but one eye,
which looks continually up to heaven. When a Christian has
one eye upon his book–the other should be looking up to
heaven for a blessing upon what he reads!

你还必须为你所读的内容祷告。许多人读得多，
却祷告少，因此从他们所读的一切中得到的很少。盖伦
[Galen]写到一种名为天竺鲶[Uranoscopos]的鱼，它只有一只眼睛，
不断地向天看。当一个基督徒有
一只眼睛看着他的书时——另一只眼睛应该仰望
天堂，为他所读的内容祈求祝福！