I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

  • -- Harry Emerson Fosdick 美国牧师福斯迪克

我宁愿生活在一个充满神秘的世界里,也不愿生活在一个小到我的大脑可以理解的世界里。

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

迈出第一步,你的大脑就会调动所有的力量来帮助你。但首要的是你要开始。一旦战斗受到惊吓,你内外的一切都会来帮助你。

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

命运是一种不值得追求和避免的东西。这是一种不违背理性的神秘,因为它暗示着世界和人类历史的进程是有意义的。

I seldom think of my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

我很少想到自己的局限性,它们也从不让我感到悲伤。也许只是偶尔的一抹思念;但它是模糊的,像花丛中的微风。

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

我不能说我能控制自己的情绪;我不知道自己在想什么。我和其他人一样迷路了。我当然不是一个领导者。

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

一个错误不会因为成倍的传播而变成真理,也不会因为没有人看到它而变成错误。

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

当你发现,不是你能集中精力做什么,而是你不能集中精力做什么时,你就有了自己的身份。

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

理想是对希望之物和可能之物的富有想象力的理解。

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

不完美不是我们个人的问题,它是存在的自然部分,

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

一个不在乎自己肚子的人,也不会在意其他任何事情。

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

对我们来说,罪并没有变得更少的神秘或痛苦。