My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of the important ideas behind in this book, "Acts of Faith", is that, you say, we should be approaching this with the same kind of urgency and the same kind of resources.

信仰行为》这本书蕴含的一个重要观点，据您所说是，我们应该实现这个目标,这同样十分迫切,我们要利用相同的资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So let's isolate now some of the major themes of Deuteronomy, before we close our study of the Pentateuch. First of all as I've mentioned, the centralization of the cult: that's a key theme in the book of Deuteronomy and it had very important effects.

那么让我们对申命记的几个主题分别讨论，在我们结束摩西五书的学习之前首先就像我们所提到的,那样，信仰的集中化：这是申命记中的,最关键的主题，并且它产生了重大的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选