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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
有人给了我新约。我以前从未系统地读过这本书。有些部分讲得通，有些部分让我震惊。
— Lionel Blue 莱昂内尔蓝
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更多好句 ↗Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
有时候，神让他所恨的成就他所爱的。
Joni Eareckson Tada
乔尼·埃尔克森·塔达
The truth of God's love is not that he allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.
上帝之爱的真谛不在于他允许坏事发生，而是他承诺当坏事发生时，他会与我们同在。
Janette Oke
珍妮特·欧克
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
爱既不羞辱从爱中得益的人，也不用感谢的锁链把他捆绑，因为这恩赐不是给他的，乃是给神的。
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
安托万·德·圣-埃克苏佩里
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
上天不会让任何人通过犯罪来获得幸福。
Vittorio Alfieri
阿尔菲耶里
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
上帝，赐予我们恩典，让我们平静地接受无法改变的事情，赐予我们勇气去改变应该改变的事情，赐予我们智慧去区分两者。
Reinhold Niebuhr
莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
任何不愿意帮助自己的人都无权求助于他的朋友或神灵。
Demosthenes
德摩斯梯尼