Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

我们的主从来没有定无花果树的罪,因为它结的果子甚多,有的落在地上坏了。他只是在它不生育的时候才诅咒它。

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There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

不能假设今天的大多数人是“正确的”,而阿米什人和其他类似的人是“错误的”。一种奇怪甚至不稳定但不干涉他人权益的生活方式不应因其不同而受到谴责。

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

天主在世上的教会的品质,任何人只要活在世上,都是看不见的,更不用说教会如何在时间的进程中,由善转向恶了。

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

当一棵树倒下时,它发出雷鸣般的撞击声;然而整个森林却在寂静中生长。

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

我从来没有翻过一张没有标价的遮羞布。

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

凡是不常见的东西都被谴责为异类。

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

给你遮荫的树,不要砍倒。

The Lord called me to plant a church.

主呼召我栽种教会。