「約翰沒有行過一件神蹟，但約翰指著這人所說的一切話都是真實的。」－約翰福音10:41
你可能對自己相當不滿意。
你不是個天才，沒有得天獨厚的才能，也沒有眾人稱羡的才華。你不過是個不起眼的無名小卒，一成不變與清淡乏味是你生活的註解。
然而，雖然如此，你仍然可能活出偉大的生命。
施浸者約翰沒有行過一件神蹟，耶穌卻說那些從婦人生的，沒有一位興起來能大過約翰。
約翰主要的職事就是為光作見證，這也該成為我們的職事。約翰樂於成為「曠野裡呼喊者的聲音」（約翰福音1:23），因為人能夠因此而認識耶穌。
願意僅僅成為一個聲音，被人聽見，卻不願讓人紀念；如同鏡子，其功用在於隱藏自己，為著返照太陽耀眼的光芒；也像黎明前就散去陣陣吹拂的微風，低聲唱著：「黎明將至！黎明將至！」
如果你身處在與你不相合的人們中間，別忘了要用愛來征服他們；若你已鑄成了生命中無法彌補的錯誤，千萬別因此無法站立，倒要讓它成為你胸中溢出力量和甘美的泉源。
我們不知道自己成就了多少美好的事物：撒下生命種子、引人至活水江河、領人認識基督；有一天他們都將領會，是你，引導他們開始思想基督。
當我們與這世界離別之時，僅管沒有人會為我們蓋造華美的陵墓，但將有人會聚集在我們的墓前，說：「他是個好人；他雖然沒有行過神蹟，但因著他的述說，我得以親自認識基督。」－馬特孫
"John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true" (John 10:41).You may be very discontented with yourself. You are no genius, have no brilliant gifts, and are inconspicuous for any special faculty. Mediocrity is the law of your existence. Your days are remarkable for nothing but sameness and insipidity. Yet you may live a great life.
John did no miracle, but Jesus said that among those born of women there had not appeared a greater than he.
John's main business was to bear witness to the Light, and this may be yours and mine. John was content to be only a voice, if men would think of Christ.
Be willing to be only a voice, heard but not seen; a mirror whose surface is lost to view, because it reflects the dazzling glory of the sun; a breeze that springs up just before daylight, and says, "The dawn! the dawn!" and then dies away.
Do the commonest and smallest things as beneath His eye. If you must live with uncongenial people, set to their conquest by love. If you have made a great mistake in your life, do not let it becloud all of it; but, locking the secret in your breast, compel it to yield strength and sweetness.
We are doing more good than we know, sowing seeds, starting streamlets, giving men true thoughts of Christ, to which they will refer one day as the first things that started them thinking of Him; and, of my part, I shall be satisfied if no great mausoleum is raised over my grave, but that simple souls shall gather there when I am gone, and say,
"He was a good man; he wrought no miracles, but he spake words about Christ, which led me to know Him for myself." --George Matheson
