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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A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

健康的人类环境是这样一种环境,在这种环境中,我们试图理解我们的极限,理解总是会降临在我们身上的意外事件,理解无情地改变我们的时间的流逝。

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

很快就会成功。当微风第一次吹拂你的船帆,海水在你的船头下沙沙作响时,那是多么快乐的时光。

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

一个人要么悲伤,要么快乐。满足是吃东西和睡觉的人的温暖猪圈。

Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.

许多餐后演讲者提醒我们,人非圣贤孰能无过。