A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
教堂
Church
I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.
我仍然认为自己是一个非常有灵性的人，但是教堂的结构并不适合我。
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
虽然他们对国家或教会没有共同的忠诚，但他们却有许多共同之处。
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
惟有一件事，就是真教会，能在这时刻叫我们不至于灭亡。
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
教会关于妇女的教导的全部基调，到最后都是轻蔑和有辱人格的。
My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
我祖母总是教导我，“如果你没有家，没有家庭，没有教堂，你就什么都没有。”
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
显然，接受教会为绝对正确的向导的人会相信教会所教导的一切。
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
我想在丘奇获得博士学位后，他在欧洲学习了一两年，也许是在荷兰。
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
在普通的教堂里，它被体面所抑制，被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
当我长大的时候，我会加入唱诗班。我妈妈是教堂的管风琴手，所以我会在教堂里唱歌。
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
看，我的希望和梦想是人们有一个很好的时间看篮球。这不是教堂。这不是认真的。
There was once a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
曾经有一段时间，所有的人都信仰上帝，由教会来统治。这一次被称为黑暗时代。
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
我从来没有兴趣在教堂唱诗班或学校唱歌。我对成为一名音乐家更感兴趣。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
教会面临的挑战之一是接受人性的本来面目。
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
如果所有教会的权力都归属于神职人员，那么在信仰和实践的所有问题上，人民实际上都必须被动服从;因为私底下审判的权柄、就都被弃绝了。
The church has given me balance.
教会给了我平衡。
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
让人们对着墙哭泣，或对着麦加，或去教堂的，是一种对纯洁的感觉的追寻。
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
若要救一个祭司的命，或是牺牲全会众的命，教会也必救那祭司的命。当然，这是倒退的。
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
每一个真正的祷告都是教会的祷告;因为那住在教会里的圣灵，在各人心里，用说不出来的叹息，在我们里面祷告。