Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

  • -- Clifford D. Simak 西马克·克利福德

信仰一定就是这样吗?在缺乏证据的情况下,愿意并有能力去相信吗?如果能找到证据,那么信仰会消亡吗?

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They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

凡因神在圣经上的发现而不信从的,不照自己所当行的去行的,无论有什么证据,就是从他国差来的使者,都要站起来抵挡。

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

我补充说,没有教育的理性能力比没有自然能力的教育更能使人获得光荣和美德。

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

你无法说服一个相信任何事情的人;因为他们的信仰不是建立在证据的基础上,而是建立在对信仰的深层需求之上。

Genuine faith doesn't draw us out of the world. It empowers us to live better in it and moves us to want to improve it.

真正的信仰不会把我们从这个世界中拉出来。它赋予我们更好的生活,并推动我们想要改善它。

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

也许我自己也不相信。真理是如此短暂。

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

真相不会因为我们在情感上接受它的能力而改变。

The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.

最好的谎言是人们愿意相信的。

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

我是国王忠实的仆人,但我是上帝的第一个仆人。