A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

  • -- David Brainerd 毕大卫

罗马和雅典的一些最杰出的天才对人类灵魂的精神本质有一些模糊的发现,并形成了一些可能的猜想,认为人类是为未来的生存状态而设计的。

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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

死亡的念头,对死亡的恐惧,在人类的动物身上是绝无仅有的;它是人类活动的一个主要动力- -主要是为了避免死亡的必然性,通过以某种方式否认死亡是人类的最终命运来克服死亡。

God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.

上帝是我的名字,我用它来指明一切猛烈而鲁莽地横越我的道路的事物,一切改变我的计划和意图,改变我的人生道路的事物,无论好坏。

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

进化论似乎把我们的心封闭在一些最朴素的精神真理之外,而它却把我们的头脑打开,让我们接受以科学的名义提出的最大胆的猜测。

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

当你有了精神基础,你就会以不同的眼光看待贫穷。