A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

绝食不是绝食。禁食服从神的命令。绝食抗议使上帝屈服于我们的要求。

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

事实上,爱有两种,一种是命令,一种是服从。这两者是截然不同的,其中一个引起的激情不是另一个的激情。

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

对肉体的渴望,对安逸的渴望,对监禁的恐惧,对部落荣誉的坚持——所有这些都存在,而且无处不在。

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

有各种各样的恳求和辩论,就是那些思想败坏的人,常常极力反对顺服神的公义和圣洁的命令。

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

如果你对自己负责,你就会产生实现梦想的渴望。

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

我们不仅要趁热打铁,而且要打到热为止。

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

报纸罢工还在继续,我不会考虑死的。