Faith is more basic than language or theology.

  • -- Sydney Carter 西尼·卡特

信仰比语言或神学更基本。

相关名言

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

Humility rests upon the shores of your sorrows and blossoms upon the mountain of your faith.

谦卑落在你忧患的岸边,盛开在你信心的山上。

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

喜剧是一种逃避,不是逃避真理,而是逃避绝望;死里逃生的信仰。

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

我对语言有了一种习得的鉴赏力,但它很少是我真正关注的焦点。