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教堂
Church
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
我完全赞成政教分离。我的观点是，这两家机构本身就足以把我们搞得一团糟，所以它们两个在一起肯定会死。
The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
城市的矛盾和脆弱驱使我去教堂。教会，反过来，包扎我的伤口，抚慰我痛苦的心，并把我送回城市。
And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
然而，你并没有抛弃教会的一些伟大人物，以及教会历史上的一些人，说他们没有信誉，因为他们犯了罪或犯了错误。
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
天主在世上的教会的品质，任何人只要活在世上，都是看不见的，更不用说教会如何在时间的进程中，由善转向恶了。
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。
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
我想，与我们在乡村教会所取得的相对成功相比，我们在建设具有鲜明特色的优秀城镇教会方面的失败，一定经常给你们和我这样的人留下深刻的印象。
You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
你在教堂里唱歌，你知道，你根本没有表演。你试着不去做，你试着说实话。一想到要在路上为你的晚餐唱歌，他就心烦意乱。
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。
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。
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
正如我们所知，我们自己的神学教会，曾经蔑视和污蔑肉体，甚至把它看作是一种耻辱和耻辱，但同时又认为它有力量把灵魂拖入沉沦。
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
教会在任何地方都被视为一体。这是一个身体，一个家庭，一个折叠，一个王国。它是一个，因为被一个灵魂所渗透。使徒说:“我们都受洗归入一位灵，叫我们在身体上成为一位。”
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
在我看来，问题在于人们把古老的乡村教堂当作他们的榜样，却没有发现它们和城镇中的教堂之间应该有最明显的区别。
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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。
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
教会正在寻找更好的方法;上帝在寻找更好的人。
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
没有人比和妻子一起去圣公会教堂更有爱心了。
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。
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。
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。