Quotation No. 363

Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ’s single message of the Love of God. You need no other. It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God.

（对你而言，耶稣传递了基督的唯一讯息——“上主是爱”。你不需要其他人。你甚至无须接纳他到你的生活中，仍然可能阅读他的言论而受益。不过如果你愿意与他分享你的痛苦及喜悦，为了寻得上主的平安而将它们一併放下，他对你的帮助会更大。） (Clarification of terms-5 6:4)

Quotation No. 362

The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God.

（耶稣之名，是指曾有这样一个人，他在所有弟兄身上看到基督圣容，而忆起了上主，因此而认同了基督。他不再是一个人，而与上主合而为一了。） (Clarification of terms-5 2:1) 

Quotation No. 361

Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time.

（天堂就在这儿，此外并无他处；天堂就在当下此刻，此外并无任何其他的时间。） (Manual of teachers-24 6:4)

Quotation No. 360

The emphasis of this course always remains the same;——it is at this moment that complete salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept it. This is still your one responsibility. Atonement might be equated with total escape from the past and total lack of interest in the future.

（本课程的重点始终未变：圆满的救恩已在此刻为你赐下，你也能够在此刻予以接纳。这仍然是你的一个责任。救赎可以等视为：彻底解脱过去；彻底漠视未来。） (Manual of teachers-24 6:1）

Quotation No. 359

The name of Jesus Christ is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. It becomes the shining symbol for the Word of God, so close to what it stands for that the little space between the two is lost, the moment that the name is calld to mind.

（耶稣基督之名本身只是一个象征，但它所代表的乃是超乎世界之爱。你可以安心地用此象征来取代你呼求的所有神祗之名。每当这圣名在心中响起。它成了上主圣言的光明象征。如此近似它所代表的意义，两者几乎融合无间了。） (Manual for teachers-23 4:1)

 

Quotation No. 358

This course has come from Jesus because his words have reached you in a language you can love and understand. Are other teachers possible, to lead the way to those who speak in different tongues and appeal to different symbols? Certainly there are… We need a many-faceted curriculum, not because of content differences, but because symbols must shift and change to suit the needs. Jesus has come to answer yours.

（这个课程就是来自于耶稣，因为他的话已经以你能懂得以及喜爱的语言传给你了。可不可能还有其他的老师前来引领使用其他语言而且偏好其他象征的人？当然有… 我们确实需要一种多面性的课程，不是因为内容有所不同，而是因为象征必须就实际需要而有所改变。耶稣已经前来答复你的需要了。） (Manual for teachers-23 7:1)

Quotation No. 357

Jesus has led the way. Why would you not be grateful to him? He has asked for love, but only that he might give it to you. You do not love yourself. But in his eyes loveliness is so complete and flawless that he does see in it an image of his Father.

（耶稣一直在前引导着路。你为何对他毫不感恩？他之所以要求爱，只是为了能够把爱赐给你。你并不爱自己，但在他的眼中，你的可爱是如此完美无瑕，他才能从中看到天父的肖像。） (Manual for teachers-23 5:1)

Quotation No. 356

Strictly speaking, words play no part at all in healing. The motivating factor is prayer, or asking. When you ask for you receive. But this refers to the prayer of the heart, not to the words you use in praying.

（严格地说，言词在救治中毫不重要。它的动力是祈祷或请求。你请求什么，就会获得什么。这儿指的是发自内心的祈祷，而非祈祷中所用的言词。） (Manual for teachers-21 1:1)

Quotation No. 355

Words are but symbols of symbols. They are thus twice removed from reality.

（言词只是象征的象征，因此它离实相有双重的距离。） (Manual for teachers-21 1:9)

 

Quotation No. 354

God’s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstances proclaims that peace is meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. In this condition, peace cannot be found.

（愤怒所在之处，上主的平安绝对无法降临，因愤怒必然否定平安的存在。不论在什么环境下，或以什么方式，认为有理由发怒的人，就等于是宣称平安是无意义的，也必会相信它不可能存在。没有人能在这种状态下觅得平安。) （Manual for teachers-20 3:3)