God opens millions of flowers without forcing the buds. It reminds us to not force anything, for things happen in the right time.

上帝开了数百万朵花，却没有强迫花蕾开放。它提醒我们不要强迫任何事情，因为事情总是在正确的时间发生。

God permits the wicked; but not for ever.

上帝容许恶人;但不是永远。

God pity the poor novelist.

上帝怜悯这位可怜的小说家。

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

神把最重的担子加在那些能挑起重担的人身上。

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

神为自己的荣耀，并显明他怜悯和公义的品性，预定了人类的一部份，没有他们自己的任何功绩，要永远得救，另一部份，要永远受咒诅，要公正地惩罚他们的罪。

God primes the pump of obligation.

上帝启动了义务的泵。

God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn't always answer the way we want him to.

神应许听我们的祷告并答应我们的祷告，但他并不总是按我们所希望的方式答应我们。

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

神使我富足，不是要我提高生活水平，而是要我提高给予的标准。

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

上帝把我们放在这里，在这狂欢之旅。我们闭上眼睛，却不知道接下来会发生什么。

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

当我们持自由的观点，当自由的观点呈现给我们时，上帝就会统治我们。

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

上帝把我们从做道德上正确的事情的人手中拯救出来。总是我们其余的人被撞成两半。

God save us from people who mean well.

上帝把我们从好心的人手中拯救出来。

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

上帝送肉，魔鬼送厨师。

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

神差派耶稣为榜样，看我们是否能在人的肉体中保留和维持圣灵。

God should be a resource in the struggle, not a way around it.

上帝应该是斗争中的一种资源，而不是一种绕过它的方法。