The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

  • -- Charles Bent 查尔斯·本特

祷告的真正目的,与其说是要满足这个或那个单一的愿望,不如说是要使人的生命完全喜乐地符合神的旨意。

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Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展,用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人,让股东变得更富有,让工人变得更贫穷,这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

沉溺于失败的意识形态、政治和新闻业,在希望和欢乐面前是无能为力的。沉溺于失败的意识形态、政治和新闻业,在希望和欢乐面前是无能为力的。

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

我们大多数人的生活充满了美好的时刻和困难的时刻。但对我们许多人来说,即使是在最快乐的时候,快乐的背后也隐藏着恐惧。

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

绝大多数的传记都是在家庭痉挛和遗忘之间的灰色过渡。