People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

  • -- Mikhail Bakunin 巴枯宁

人们去教堂的原因和去酒馆的原因是一样的:让自己麻木,忘记痛苦,想象自己,哪怕只有几分钟,自由而快乐。

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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

正如我们所知,我们自己的神学教会,曾经蔑视和污蔑肉体,甚至把它看作是一种耻辱和耻辱,但同时又认为它有力量把灵魂拖入沉沦。

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

有些时候,我们必须沉沦到痛苦的底部才能理解真理,就像我们必须沉沦到井底才能在光天化日之下看到星星一样。

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

我想在丘奇获得博士学位后,他在欧洲学习了一两年,也许是在荷兰。

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

我想的不是所有的痛苦,而是依然存在的美丽。