"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, restore the lost, and mend the broken."

被原谅只是礼物的一半。另一半是我们也可以原谅，恢复失去的，修补破碎的。

"The soul is the sense of something in us that is eternal."

灵魂是我们内心某种永恒的感觉。

"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."

神学家谈论一种先于恩典本身并使我们能够接受它的预防恩典。我认为还必须有一种预防勇气，使我们能够勇敢——也就是说，承认有比我们的眼睛所能承受的更多的美，珍贵的东西已经放在我们手中，而不做任何事情来尊重它们就是造成巨大的伤害。

"A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation."

一个好的布道是激情对话的一面。

"It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire."

活得足够长以超越你可能获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."

我一直喜欢“怀恨在心”这个短语，因为许多人对他们的怨恨很温柔，就像对待他们心中最亲近的东西一样。

"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear."

有用是这些老人曾经对自己最好的希望，而无目的是他们最深的恐惧。

"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."

我们都比我们想象的要多得多。

"Theology is a language of the heart, not of the head."

神学是心灵的语言，而不是头脑的语言。