感恩節語錄雙語譯文

1. The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

不懂感恩的心得不到憐憫；讓這個節日充滿感恩的心，就像磁石找到鐵一樣，感恩的心也會收到上天的祝福。

—— Henry Ward Beecher亨利?沃德?比奇

2. Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

感恩節最美好的一點是把一切事物都定格在純潔的心中，讓每一次感動都變成感恩，每一次呼吸都變成讚歌。

—— Konrad von Gesner康拉德?馮?格斯納

3. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

上帝每天給了你86400秒鐘的時間當禮物。你可曾用過其中一秒鐘説“謝謝”？——William A. Ward威廉?A?沃德

4. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

一個樂觀主義者就是在感恩節開始嘗試一項新節食計劃的人。 ——Irv Kupcinet厄夫?庫普茨內特

5. How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's

personality. A child is resentful, negative-or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

如果我們能幫助我們的'孩子和孫兒們從小學會感恩該多好啊。感恩打開許多扇大門。感恩改變孩子的性格。有充滿憤恨的小孩，有消極的小孩，也有感恩的小孩。感恩的小孩願意給予，他們散發出快樂的氣息，讓人們不由得想靠近。

—— Sir John Templeton約翰?鄧普頓爵士

6. Gratitude ... goes beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

感激超越你我，傳達出生命中的一切皆是純潔禮物的真理。過去我總是把感激當作收到禮物時的自發反應，但現在我意識到

感激還可以作為生命的教條。根據感激的教條，我本身和我所擁有的一切都是愛的禮物，值得歡喜慶祝的禮物。

—— Henri J. M. Nouwen盧雲神父

7. Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don't get

discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.

不要厭倦做好事。不要沮喪和放棄，因為終有一天我們會收穫許多祝福。——Galatians 6:9（新約聖經中的）迦拉太書6:9

8. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

當我們表達自己的感激之情時，我們必須永遠銘記最大的感激不是言語能表達的，而是要常懷感恩之心。

—— John Fitzgerald Kennedy肯尼迪