A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
教堂
Church
Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.
我和教会里的任何人都不能容忍对主的任何儿女的仇恨或偏见。
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
教堂是从未去过天堂的绅士们向从未去过天堂的人夸耀的地方。
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
今天阻碍妇女解放的最大障碍是教会、正典法、圣经和祭司职任。
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。
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
早期的教会只有旧约。新约隐藏在旧约之中;旧约对新约是敞开的。
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
在教堂里看到了一场婚礼。奇怪的是,我们这些结了婚的人看到这些可怜的傻瓜被骗到我们这种地步,心里是多么高兴。
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
教会的垮台不会因为缺乏道歉的教导;它将来自教会家庭的解体。
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
没有人看到明显的,没有人观察普通的。一平方码土地上的奇迹比教堂里所有的寓言都要多。
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
我从不厌倦伟大的教会。这是我最喜欢的一种山景。人类从没有像建造一座大教堂那样受到如此快乐的启发。
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
教会能做什么?如果她坚持自己的道德教导,那么她将被视为在评判一大批欧洲人。
It has always been difficult to get very close to the spirit of the Sistine Chapel; now that it is cleaned, it is like trying to get close to a trumpet.
要非常接近西斯廷教堂的精神一直是很困难的;现在它被清理干净了,就像试图接近小号一样。
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.
信徒必须顺服某教会的弟兄,这一切理由都要求他顺服主里所有的弟兄。
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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。
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
教会并不假装是科学家。它是基于科学告诉它的东西来教学的。
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
多年来,我一直在教堂、少年监狱、康复中心和医院发表演讲,我总是谈论我的信仰。这是我与上帝关系的宣言。
The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
教会招募了一些人,他们在被洗之前已经上浆熨烫过了。
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
某些罪不应得到教会宽恕的见证,这一原则也许一点也不新鲜,但已在各教会得到应用;然而,也许没有严格的一致性。
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
在教会这个被视为社会有机体的地方,神秘不可避免地退化为信仰。