Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  • -- Reinhold Niebuhr 莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫

原罪是关于人的一件事,它使人能够设想自己的完美,却不能实现它。

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

教学是人类唯一的主要职业,我们还没有开发出工具,使一个普通人有能力和表现。在教学中,我们依赖于“自然主义者”,那些不知何故知道如何教学的人。

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

教会作为一个神圣的社会,拥有一种内在的生活原则,它能够吸收最多样化的材料,并将自己的形象印在这些材料上。

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

如果时间就是金钱,那么节约时间似乎是合乎道德的,尤其是节省自己的时间,而为他人着想可以为这种节俭开脱。一个是直接的。

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

世上只有两种人:自以为是罪人的义人和自以为是义的罪人。

Happiness is a choice, yeah, thing in life make it difficult but at the end of the day you control your own happiness.

幸福是一种选择,是的,生活中的事情让它变得困难,但最终你控制了自己的幸福。

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed.

当悲伤超过人类表达情感的能力时,人就会产生一种奇怪的镇定。

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

如果你有能力去爱,你就有能力去爱任何人。

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

有些人因罪恶而上升,有些人因美德而堕落。