can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

  • -- Sinclair Lewis 辛克莱·刘易斯

我不明白为什么牧师们每周都要在指定的时间布道,因为从人类的角度讲,灵感是不可能像时钟一样有规律地出现的。

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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

这就是我们的生活,远离了公众的纠缠,在树木中找到了语言,在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍,在石头中找到了布道,在一切事物中找到了美好。

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

一首歌会比所有的说教都更能留在记忆中。