Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

  • -- Matthew Henry 马太·亨利

特别的苦难并不总是对特别的罪的惩罚,有时是对特别恩典的试炼。

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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

世界上没有任何一项运动像棒球那样干净利落、引人注目,其因果、犯罪与惩罚、动机与结果都被如此清晰地定义。

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

我们不相信永生,因为我们可以证明它,但我们试图证明它,因为我们不能不相信它。

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

那些寻求对他人施加权力的小人物,首先会摧毁别人对自己的信心。

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

惩罚不是为了报复,而是为了减少犯罪,改造罪犯。