12倘若你仅仅读生命读经〔而不加以研读〕,你只会得着暂时的滋养。那对你只会成为一种灵感,……好像空中的蒸气。但是当我们所读的在我们里面成为真理,这种滋养便永远存留。……你必须有真理。要真理进入你里面,唯一的路是经过你的思考。那样它就留在你的记忆里。如果你不明白,真理就无法进入你里面。真理是借着你的思考、你的悟性而进入你里面的。如果真理进入你的记忆里,它就成了常时、长期的滋养。这样,你就有真理的储存,你就是一个常时在滋养之下的人。到那时候你就晓得如何向别人陈明真理,不是仅仅激发或激动人,而是使人扎实,得着真理的构成(李常受文集一九八四年第二册,四○二至四○三页)。
12If you merely read [and do not study] the Life-studies, you will receive only a temporary nourishment. That will become only a kind of inspiration to you,...like a vapor in the air. When what we read becomes a truth in our being, this nourishment remains forever...You must have the truth. The only way for the truth to get into you is through your mentality. Then it remains in your memory. If you do not understand, the truth cannot get into you. The truth gets into you through your mentality, your understanding. Also, if the truth gets into your memory, it becomes a constant and long-term nourishment. Then you have an accumulation of the truth, and you are a person continually under the constant nourishment. You will then know how to present the truth to others, not merely to inspire them or to stir them up but to make them solid and constituted with the truth. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” pp. 312-313)