When you pray generically - "God, bless me" -how are you going to know if he answered it or not?

笼统的祷告说——“神啊，赐福于我吧”——你怎能知道神是否会回应了你呢？

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I can very well imagine God being bored with men who only know how to beg, exasperated by the triviality of his creation, equally disgusted with both heaven and earth.

我完全能够想象到，上帝对于那些只知道如何去乞求的人类感到厌烦，他被自己所创造出的琐碎给激怒了，他同样厌恶于宇宙万物。

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He dedicated his life to a single quest: to know how God created this world.

他专心致力于他的使命：探索上帝如何创造了这个世界。

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How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

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Apparently hunter and gatherers think a god should know how to provide for himself.

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So as my benediction-I guess Frank since I'm from the south, I know how to preach-I would ask that God bless us, each and every one of us, that God keeps each and every one of us in the hollow of his hand.

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"I would include the supernatural force - the presence of God - and then suggest that the man picked to do this kind of work be wise and that he should know how to gather strength not just from within himself but from God, " he says.

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