The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
危险的是，在对一种思想的滥用和扭曲做出反应时，我们将完全拒绝它。在这个过程中，我们失去了它的好处，它的价值，它的真相。
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
今天的危险在于相信没有病人，只有一个病态的社会。
The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
上帝的死亡使天使们处于一种奇怪的境地。
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
魔鬼把世界分为无神论和迷信。
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
狗是绅士;我希望去他的天堂，而不是人的天堂。
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
对邪恶的恐惧是人类行为中一个比美好前景更有说服力的原则。
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
科学的本质是，它总是愿意为了一个更好的想法而放弃一个既定的想法;神学的本质在于它认为自己的真理是永恒不变的。
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
一个相信的人比一个怀疑的人更幸福，就像一个喝醉的人比一个清醒的人更幸福一样。
The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
信仰不是问题，伯纳黛特问题在于忠诚。
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions -- social, economic, and political -- of the common life.
只有当一个教会或一个国家的信仰能够激励和使人们奉献出他们的时间和精力来塑造共同生活的各种制度——社会、经济和政治制度时，它才是一种充分的信仰。
The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
敬畏耶和华，就是智慧。远离恶就是聪明。
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
喝下一杯自然科学的饮料，你会变成一个无神论者，但杯底的上帝正在等你。
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
第一次反抗是反对神学的最高暴政，反对上帝的幻影。只要我们在天上有一个主人，我们在地上就会是奴隶。
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
你变得虔诚的第一个迹象是你变得快乐。
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
食人族的神将是食人族，十字军战士将是十字军战士，商人将是商人。