If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

如果善有原因，那就不是善;如果它有效果，有回报，那也不是好事。所以善是在因果链之外的。

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.

如果它是真的，如果它是美丽的，如果它是光荣的，如果它是正确的，那么就去要求它。因为是出于神。你属于上帝。

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

如果仅仅是“感觉良好”就能决定，那么醉酒将是人类最有效的体验。

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

如果上帝的概念有任何有效性或用途，它只能使我们更大，更自由，更有爱。如果上帝不能这样做，那么是时候我们摆脱他了。

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

如果说有什么东西把人与神联系在一起，那就是当别人都拒绝一个原则时，坚持这个原则的勇气。

If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.

若世上有一位爱神的人，是常得平安的，我却不知道，因为没有指示过我。但有一件事是显明的，就是人在跌倒以后，起来以后，仍是住在那宝贵的爱里。

If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully decline to participate.

如果有什么神圣的计划需要我的生存和所有那些在日托中心的孩子的死亡，我恭敬地拒绝参与。

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

如果我们拒绝科学，我们就拒绝普通人。

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

如果你不得不说或做一些有争议的事情，目标是让人们讨厌他们喜欢它，而不是喜欢他们讨厌它。

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

如果你知道我是一个不信的人，那么你就比我更了解我自己。我可能是一个不信仰者，但我是一个对信仰有怀旧情结的不信仰者。

If you really want to make big money, start a religion.

如果你真的想赚大钱，那就开始信仰吧。

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

无知总比错误好，相信错误的人与不相信任何事情的人相比，离真理更近。

Imagination is evidence of the divine, and the divine is the imagination of evidence.

想象是神的证据，神是证据的想象。

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

我们用不道德这个词来形容那些和我们犯的罪不一样的人。

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

在所有的生活中，有很多的乐趣和笑声。生活是要享受的，而不仅仅是忍受。