When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  • -- Abraham Kuyper 凯柏尔

当与你内心深处的信念背道而驰的原则开始赢得胜利的那一天,那么战斗就是你的使命,和平已成为罪恶。你必须以最宝贵的和平为代价,用你全部的信心之火,把你的信念暴露在朋友和敌人面前。

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

你不能改变对的事情,人们就会依赖你。为自己确立行动的原则;你要照他们的话去行。首先要知道你的原则是公正的,然后做你自己。

We want to create world peace. But peace is not merely the absence of war. There is so much internal strife and that prejudice feeds into the national aspect. We have to change ourselves if we want to change the world.

我们想要创造世界和平。但是和平不仅仅是没有战争。国内冲突如此之多,这种偏见助长了民族方面的问题。如果我们想改变世界,就必须改变自己。

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

所以我认为道德是一个更广泛的东西,它不那么关注禁令,而是更多地关注原则、问题和如何生活的想法。

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

睡眠不是一门简单的艺术:为了睡眠,人必须整天保持清醒。

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

我们花了大约一天半的时间才发现出了什么问题。

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

没有宽恕,就没有和平。