The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  • -- Charles Eastman 查尔斯伊士曼

自然界的元素和雄伟的力量,闪电、风、水、火和霜,都被敬畏地看作是精神力量,但在性质上总是次要和中间的。

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The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

使徒们被感动,与其说是由于理智上的忧虑,不如说是由于精神上的启示。他们遇到了人,他们所遇到的人的需要向他们大声呼喊。

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

人生要么是一场大胆的冒险,要么什么都不是。面对变化,像自由的灵魂一样面对命运,这是不可战胜的力量。

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。

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

事奉的真正品格是仆人的心。