瑪麗蓮·羅賓遜
探討信仰與家庭的深刻主題
"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, restore the lost, and mend the broken."
被原諒只是禮物的一半。另一半是我們也可以原諒，恢復(fù)失去的，修補(bǔ)破碎的。
"The soul is the sense of something in us that is eternal."
靈魂是我們內(nèi)心某種永恒的感覺。
"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."
神學(xué)家談?wù)撘环N先于恩典本身并使我們能夠接受它的預(yù)防恩典。我認(rèn)為還必須有一種預(yù)防勇氣，使我們能夠勇敢——也就是說，承認(rèn)有比我們的眼睛所能承受的更多的美，珍貴的東西已經(jīng)放在我們手中，而不做任何事情來尊重它們就是造成巨大的傷害。
"A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation."
一個(gè)好的布道是激情對(duì)話的一面。
"It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire."
活得足夠長以超越你可能獲得的任何怨恨感是值得的。
"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."
"I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge,' because many people are tender of their resentments, as of the thing nearest their hearts."
我一直喜歡“懷恨在心”這個(gè)短語，因?yàn)樵S多人對(duì)他們的怨恨很溫柔，就像對(duì)待他們心中最親近的東西一樣。
"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear."
有用是這些老人曾經(jīng)對(duì)自己最好的希望，而無目的是他們最深的恐懼。
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."
"We are all so much more than we think we are."
我們都比我們想象的要多得多。
"Theology is a language of the heart, not of the head."
神學(xué)是心靈的語言，而不是頭腦的語言。