Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  • -- Zhuangzi 庄子

那些试图用仪式和音乐来阻碍人类的思想,影响慈善和奉献来满足人类思想的人已经失去了他们的本性。

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If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

若罪的罪过甚大,除了耶稣的血以外,没有什么能叫罪得着满足。罪的污秽甚大,除耶稣的血以外,再没有别的东西能洗去它的污秽。罪的罪恶是何等的大,何等的可恶,何等的罪恶。

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

良知和个人判断的权利是不可剥夺的,为了自由、自由行使和不受干扰地享有这一权利而把自己团结成一个整体,确实符合全人类的利益。

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

当他带着明显的自我满足问我对这个情景的看法时,我几乎不知道该如何回答。我问他是否看过那出戏,他说没有,我一点也不惊讶。

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西,他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西,他们就被称为开发者。

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

因为人类的思维很少是静止的,如果你不变得更好,你无疑会变得更糟。

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

天真无邪的人在无端的赞扬中感到最苦涩的责备。

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

我从运用我的才智中得到极大的满足。

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

有创意很有趣,也很令人满意。

Send your charity abroad wrapped in blankets.

用毯子把你的慈善机构送到国外去。

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

慈善造成许多罪恶。