火焰都是往上冒的,人的灵性也像一道火焰。
—盖佐?加尔多尼
All flames burn upward: the human soul is a flame too.
—Géza Gárdonyi
十八岁时,自己的信念是据以顾盼的山头;四十五岁时,它成了我们据以藏匿的洞穴。
—F. 斯科特?菲茨杰拉德,《姑娘们与哲学家》
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look, at 45 they are caves in which we hide.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
虔诚意味着热烈探究人类存在的问题,心甘情愿接受其答案。即令痛心,也在所不计。
—保罗?蒂利希
Being religious means asking passionately the question of our existence and being willing to receive answers even if the answers hurt.
—Paul Tillich
教条与怀疑之间尚有一途—虚心的半信半疑。
Between dogma on one hand and skepticism on the other, there’s another way—open-minded uncertainty.
—G. F. C.
在天色仍然黑暗的破晓时歌唱的鸟,是信心的化身。
—拉宾德拉纳特?泰戈尔
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
—Rabindranath Tagore
怀疑并非信仰的反面,而是信仰的一种要素。
—保罗?蒂利希,弗雷德里克?比克纳在《痴心妄想》中引用
Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
—Paul Tillich, quoted by Frederick Buechner in Wishful Thinking
任何信念均始于一时的奇想。
—H. 布龙
Every conviction was a whim at birth.
—H. Broun
信仰是相信常识叫你不要相信的东西。
—乔治?西顿,《梦幻街奇缘》
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
—George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street
见过溪涧而知有海洋,便是信心。
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
—W. A. W.
信心像透视迷雾的雷达,洞悉肉眼难辨其真的远景。
—科里?坦恩?布姆,《为上帝的流浪》
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
—Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
信念是一种发自内心的呼声,让你倾听自己心底的声音。
—丹尼斯?米勒
Faith is the voice in the back of your head that tells you to listen to the voice in the back of your head.
—Dennis Miller
要成功,必须思索;上帝会告诉你世人需要什么。
—卡洛斯?桑塔纳
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
—Carlos Santana
如果你有什么信念,请和我分享,但请保留你的疑惑,因为我自己的疑惑已经够多了。
—歌德
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
—Goethe
信仰为的不是明白宇宙的神秘,而是深信其中自有奥妙,而且比我们伟大。
—戴维?沃尔普拉比,《让失去成为获得》
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
—Rabbi David Wolpe, Making Loss Matter
无论我们祈祷什么,上帝都会响应:有时说“行”,有时说“不行”,有时则说“你在开玩笑吧”。
—吉米?卡特
God answers all the prayers. Sometimes he answers “yes,” sometimes he answers “no,” and sometimes the answer is “you gotta be kidding.”
—Jimmy Carter
我宁可以为:巧合是上帝为匿名而创造的把戏。
—克莱拉?平托?科雷拉,《我的第二个信使》
I like to think that coincidences are the trick God invented to remain anonymous.
—Clara Pinto Correia, Os mensageiros secundários
真理不可丧,倘遭人间的傲慢狂妄阻滞,亦终能汇聚力量去壅通塞,沛然莫之能御。
—马克?赫尔普林,《华尔街日报》
The truth, which is indestructible, has a way of accumulating against pride and arrogance, and then sweeping them from its path.
—Mark Helprin in The Wall Street Journal
万恶之源不在宗教,而在自以为是。
—佚名
It is not religion that is the root of all evil, it is certainty.
—Anonymous
天堂大门为所有仁爱之心而开。
—皮埃尔?让?德?布朗热
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
—Pierre Jean de Branger
永远不要“为了息事宁人”而否定自己的经验或信念。
—达格?哈马舍尔德,《记号》
Never “for the sake of peace and quiet” deny your own experience or convictions. —Dag Hammarskj.ld, Markings
奇迹是我们越与人分享,我们所有的越多。
—伦纳德?尼莫伊
The miracle is this—the more we share, the more we have.
—Leonard Nimoy
祈祷不是为了改变世界,而是为了改变我们自己。
—戴维?沃尔普拉比,《教孩子认识上帝》
Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
—Rabbi David Wolpe, Teaching Your Children about God
心怀喜悦便是无言的传道。
—特蕾莎修女
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
—Mother Teresa
对爱问话的孩子解释你的信仰,最有助于加深自己的了解。
There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
—F. A. C.
心愿成空,可能是最大的神恩。
—加思?布鲁克斯、帕特?阿尔杰和拉里?巴斯蒂安,《未答复的祈祷》
Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
—Garth Brooks, Pat Alger and Larry Bastian, “Unanswered Prayers”
当然是老生常谈,真理通常都是老生常谈。
—玛格丽特?撒切尔
Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
—Margaret Thatcher
天下没有未卜先知的水晶球。奇迹在你心里。
—多莉?帕顿
The magic is inside you. There ain’t no crystal ball.
—Dolly Parton
最玷辱真理的,莫过于明知是真理却给予漠视。
—波舒哀
The worst disgrace one can do to the truth is to know it and yet to abandon it.
—Bossuet
所谓信念,就是相信前面的路,要比看上去的长得多。
—劳林达?阿尔维斯
To have faith is to believe that the road we are traveling along is longer than what we can see.
—Laurinda Alves
如果我们所信奉的东西与我们所做的事情两样,则无快乐可言。
—弗雷亚?斯塔克,《旅行的回声》
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
—Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo
真理是永恒的,知识却可变易,混淆二者则后果不堪设想。
—马德琳?英格,《可以接受的时光》
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
—Madeleine L’Engle, An Acceptable Time
如果从来没有奇迹发生过,我们便无法想象奇迹这回事。
We couldn’t conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.
—L. F.
若衷心相信自己所为无误,就一定要坚持到底。死鱼才随波逐流。
—琳达?埃勒比
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
—Linda Ellerbee
闭塞的心灵,像是闭塞的房屋,能变得非常郁闷。
—“引语”网站
A closed mind, like a closed room, can become awfully stuffy.
—Quote
只要心有所需,我就有活下去的理由。满足乃是死亡。
—乔治?萧伯纳
As long as I have a want, I have reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
—George Bernard Shaw
若单靠眼睛去判断,很容易受表象愚弄;若能用心去感受、理解,就不会那么容易受骗。
—塞萨尔?奥古斯托?弗洛雷斯
Because they judge, our eyes may be fooled by outside appearances, but not so our hearts, who feel and understand.
—Cesar Augusto Flores
希望是栖息于灵魂中的一种会飞翔的东西。
—艾米莉?狄金森
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. —Emily Dickinson
我总是以君子之心度人—可省却许多麻烦。
—鲁德亚德?吉卜林
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.
—Rudyard Kipling
我宁愿心扉为惊奇而开,不因信条而闭。
—格里?斯彭斯,《如何争论,又次次赢》
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
—Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
人说心灵像海绵,这话若是真的,我愿不时把它挤一下,除去里面不要的东西。
If it’s true the mind is like a sponge, I wish I could squeeze mine out once in a while and get rid of stuff I don’t need anymore.
—B. P.
如果你心胸打不开,就免开尊口吧。
—休?格拉夫顿,《M代表恶意》
If your mind isn’t open, keep your mouth shut too.
—Sue Grafton, M Is for Malice
本能是心灵的探子。
—《希拉尔丁夫人》
Instinct is the nose of the mind. —Madame de Girardin
追求梦想,心境务须年轻。与人相处,心智则须成熟。
—汤姆?布罗考
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
—Tom Brokaw
心里能牢记电视节目表,便是寂寞。
Loneliness is knowing the television schedules by heart.
—B. V.
心灵为新观念扩大后,便不能再恢复原状。
—奥利弗?温德尔?霍姆斯
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
要感人之心,唯一办法是以心感人。
—卡罗尔?奥康纳,《我想我不属于这里》
Nothing but the heart can change the heart.
—Carroll O’Connor, I Think I’m Outta Here
同情是两颗心共拖曳一重担。
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
—G. R.
感激是心灵的记忆。
——J. B. 马西厄
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
—J. B. Massieu
真相是最能改变心智的药剂。
—莉莉?汤姆林
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
—Lily Tomlin
人类心灵之求大悟,犹如身体之求存活。
—《询问者杂志》
The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive.
—Inquirer Magazine
心灵是自己做主的地方,能把地狱变成天堂,把天堂变成地狱。
—约翰?弥尔顿
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
—John Milton