Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  • -- Saint Francis of Assisi 阿西西的圣方济各

求你赐给我极端贫穷的宝藏:求你赐给我我们秩序的显著标记,使它在日光之下不拥有任何属于它自己的东西,为了你名的荣耀,除了乞讨,它没有别的遗产。

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On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

一方面,我们必须问,是否有一些领域的全民福利已经无法承受?但另一方面,让我们看看依赖的问题,我们通过人们所享有的福利使他们陷入贫困。

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

过分关心自己健康的人就像守财奴。他们积蓄了一笔他们从未享受过的财富。

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

教会一直愿意用天上的宝物来换取现款。

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

贫困是我们必须跨越的边界。