In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  • -- Eli Stanley Jones 伊莱·斯坦利·琼斯

在普通的教堂里,它被体面所抑制,被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

戏剧比其他形式更早开始关注普通人的内部运作,有时使用神话模型来讲述故事。

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

我母亲在教堂里把我养大。星期天不允许我呆在家里;没有选择。我一直在唱诗班唱歌,直到我上大学。

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

教会早期的做法或多或少是在牧师或牧师的主持下进行礼拜,这是会众的礼物。

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

如果你不愿意冒不寻常的风险,你将不得不安于平凡。