The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  • -- Saint Aurelius Augustine 圣奥勒留奥古斯丁

圣礼的精神美德就像光;它虽经过污秽之地,却未受污染。

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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

我们不应该担心肉体的终结。相反,我们所关心的必须是活在当下——把我们内在的自我从精神死亡中释放出来,这种精神死亡来自于我们生活在一个符合外在定义的表象之下,即我们是谁,我们是什么。

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

人们没有很好的直觉,知道如何根据他们已经知道的来衡量新信息。他们倾向于高估它。

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

我不能告诉你任何你内心深处还不知道的精神真理。我所能做的就是提醒你你忘记了什么。

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

在我所有的困惑和痛苦中,圣经从来没有不给我光明和力量。

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

由于相信至高无上的存在,一个人拥抱某些神秘。

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

忠诚——一种即将被背叛的人所特有的美德。