Thank you so much. To the co-chairs, Jeff and Ann; to all the members of Congress who are here, the distinguished guests who've traveled so far to be here this morning; to Randall for your wonderful stories and powerful prayer; to all who are here providing testimony, thank you so much for having me and Michelle here. We are blessed to be here. 非常感谢。致联席主席杰夫和安；致在座的各位国会议员，远道而来的尊贵客人们；致兰德尔，感谢你精彩的故事和有力的祈祷；致所有在此作见证的人，非常感谢你们邀请我和米歇尔来到这里。我们很荣幸能来到这里。
I want to begin by just saying a word to Mark Kelly, who's here. We have been praying for Mark's wife, Gabby Giffords, for many days now. But I want Gabby and Mark and their entire family to know that we are with them for the long haul, and God is with them for the long haul. 首先我想对在座的马克·凯利说几句话。这些天来，我们一直在为马克的妻子加比·吉福兹祈祷。但我想让加比、马克和他们的全家知道，我们会一直陪伴他们，上帝也会一直陪伴他们。
And even as we pray for Gabby in the aftermath of a tragedy here at home, we're also mindful of the violence that we're now seeing in the Middle East, and we pray that the violence in Egypt will end and that the rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people will be realized and that a better day will dawn over Egypt and throughout the world. 在为国内这场悲剧之后的加比祈祷的同时，我们也关注着中东地区正在发生的暴力事件，我们祈祷埃及的暴力能够结束，埃及人民的权利和愿望能够实现，美好的一天将降临埃及和全世界。
For almost 60 years, going back to President Eisenhower, this gathering has been attended by our President. It's a tradition that I'm proud to uphold not only as a fellow believer but as an elected leader whose entry into public service was actually through the church. This may come as a surprise, for as some of you know, I did not come from a particularly religious family. My father, who I barely knew -- I only met once for a month in my entire life -- was said to be a non-believer throughout his life. 近60年来，从艾森豪威尔总统开始，我们的总统都会出席这个聚会。我很自豪能延续这一传统，不仅作为一名信徒，更作为一名通过教会进入公共服务领域的民选领导人。这可能会让你们中的一些人感到惊讶，因为我并非来自一个特别宗教化的家庭。我的父亲，我几乎不认识他——我一生中只和他见过一次面，相处了一个月——据说他一生都是一个不信教的人。
My mother, whose parents were Baptist and Methodist, grew up with a certain skepticism about organized religion, and she usually only took me to church on Easter and Christmas -- sometimes. And yet my mother was also one of the most spiritual people that I ever knew. She was somebody who was instinctively guided by the Golden Rule and who nagged me constantly about the homespun values of her Kansas upbringing, values like honesty and hard work and kindness and fair play. 我的母亲，她的父母是浸礼会和卫理公会信徒，在对有组织的宗教持怀疑态度的环境中长大，她通常只在复活节和圣诞节带我去教堂——有时去。然而，我的母亲也是我所认识的最有灵性的人之一。她是一个本能地受黄金法则指引的人，她不断向我唠叨她在堪萨斯州成长过程中形成的朴素价值观，比如诚实、勤奋、善良和公平竞争。
And it's because of her that I came to understand the equal worth of all men and all women, and the imperatives of an ethical life and the necessity to act on your beliefs. And it's because of her example and guidance that despite the absence of a formal religious upbringing my earliest inspirations for a life of service ended up being the faith leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. 正是因为她，我理解了所有男人和女人的平等价值，理解了道德生活的必要性，以及按照自己的信念行事的重要性。正是因为她的榜样和指导，尽管缺乏正规的宗教教育，我最早对服务生涯的灵感最终来自民权运动的宗教领袖们。
There was, of course, Martin Luther King and the Baptist leaders, the ways in which they helped those who had been subjugated to make a way out of no way, and transform a nation through the force of love. But there were also Catholic leaders like Father Theodore Heshburg, and Jewish leaders like Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Muslim leaders and Hindu leaders. 当然，有马丁·路德·金和浸礼会领袖们，他们帮助那些被压迫的人找到出路，通过爱的力量改变了一个国家。但也有天主教领袖如西奥多·赫什伯格神父，犹太领袖如亚伯拉罕·约书亚·赫舍尔拉比，穆斯林领袖和印度教领袖。
Their call to fix what was broken in our world, a call rooted in faith, is what led me just a few years out of college to sign up as a community organizer for a group of churches on the Southside of Chicago. 他们呼吁修复我们世界中破碎的部分，这种植根于信仰的呼吁，促使我在大学毕业后几年内就报名成为芝加哥南区一群教堂的社区组织者。
And it was through that experience working with pastors and laypeople trying to heal the wounds of hurting neighborhoods that I came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace Him as my lord and savior. 正是通过这段与牧师和信徒们一起努力治愈受伤社区的经历，我亲自认识了耶稣基督，并接受他为我的主和救主。
Now, that was over 20 years ago. And like all of us, my faith journey has had its twists and turns. It hasn't always been a straight line. I have thanked God for the joys of parenthood and Michelle's willingness to put up with me. In the wake of failures and disappointments I've questioned what God had in store for me and been reminded that God's plans for us may not always match our own short-sighted desires. 那是20多年前的事了。和我们所有人一样，我的信仰之旅也经历了曲折。它并不总是一条直线。我为为人父母的快乐和米歇尔愿意容忍我而感谢上帝。在失败和失望之后，我质疑上帝为我准备了什么，并被提醒上帝对我们的计划可能并不总是符合我们自己短视的愿望。
And let me tell you, these past two years, they have deepened my faith. The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray. Abe Lincoln said, as many of you know, "I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go." 让我告诉你，过去的两年加深了我的信仰。总统职位有一种奇妙的方式，让人感到需要祈祷。正如你们许多人所知，亚伯·林肯说过："我曾多次被逼到跪下，因为我深感自己无处可去。"
Fortunately, I'm not alone in my prayers. Pastor friends like Joel Hunter and T.D. Jakes come over to the Oval Office every once in a while to pray with me and pray for the nation. The chapel at Camp David has provided consistent respite and fellowship. The director of our Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnership's office, Joshua DuBois -- young minister himself -- he starts my morning off with meditations from Scripture. 幸运的是，我在祈祷中并不孤单。像乔尔·亨特和T.D.杰克斯这样的牧师朋友会不时来到椭圆形办公室与我一起祈祷，为国家祈祷。戴维营的小教堂提供了持续的休息和团契。我们信仰和邻里伙伴关系办公室的主任约书亚·杜布瓦——一位年轻的牧师——他每天早上用圣经经文开始我的一天。
Most of all, I've got friends around the country -- some who I know, some who I don't know, but I know their friends who are out there praying for me. One of them is an old friend named Kaye Wilson. In our family we call her Momma Kaye. And she happens to be Malia and Sasha's godmother. And she has organized prayer circles for me all around the country. 最重要的是，我在全国各地有一些朋友——有些我认识，有些我不认识，但我知道他们的朋友在那里为我祈祷。其中一位是一位名叫凯·威尔逊的老朋友。在我们家，我们叫她凯妈妈。她恰好是玛利亚和萨沙的教母。她在全国各地为我组织了祈祷圈。
She started small with her own Bible study group, but once I started running for President and she heard what they were saying about me on cable, she felt the need to pray harder. By the time I was elected President, she says, "I just couldn't keep up on my own." "I was having to pray eight, nine times a day just for you." So she enlisted help from around the country. 她从自己的圣经学习小组开始，规模很小，但当我开始竞选总统，听到有线电视上对我的评价后，她觉得需要更努力地祈祷。到我当选总统时，她说："我一个人实在跟不上了。""我每天要为你祈祷八九次。"于是她从全国各地寻求帮助。
It's also comforting to know that people are praying for you who don't always agree with you. Tom Coburn, for example, is here. He is not only a dear friend but also a brother in Christ. We came into the Senate at the same time. Even though we are on opposite sides of a whole bunch of issues, part of what has bound us together is a shared faith, a recognition that we pray to and serve the same God. And I keep praying that God will show him the light and he will vote with me once in a while. It's going to happen, Tom. A ray of light is going to beam down. 知道那些不总是同意你的人也在为你祈祷，这也是一种安慰。例如，汤姆·科伯恩在这里。他不仅是一位亲爱的朋友，也是基督里的兄弟。我们同时进入参议院。尽管我们在很多问题上站在对立面，但将我们联系在一起的是共同的信仰，认识到我们向同一位上帝祈祷并侍奉同一位上帝。我不断祈祷上帝会给他启示，他偶尔会和我一起投票。这会发生的，汤姆。一道光芒会照射下来。
My Christian faith then has been a sustaining force for me over these last few years. All the more so, when Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time, we are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us but whether we're being true to our conscience and true to our God. "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." 我的基督教信仰在过去几年里一直是我支撑的力量。尤其是当米歇尔和我听到我们的信仰不时受到质疑时，我们被提醒，最终重要的不是别人对我们的评价，而是我们是否忠于自己的良心和忠于我们的上帝。"先求他的国和他的义，这些东西都要加给你们了。"
As I travel across the country folks often ask me what is it that I pray for. And like most of you, my prayers sometimes are general: Lord, give me the strength to meet the challenges of my office. Sometimes they're specific: Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance -- where there will be boys. Lord, have that skirt get longer as she travels to that dance. 当我周游全国时，人们经常问我祈祷什么。和你们大多数人一样，我的祈祷有时是笼统的：主啊，给我力量去应对我的职位带来的挑战。有时是具体的：主啊，当我看着玛利亚去参加她的第一次舞会——那里会有男孩——请给我耐心。主啊，让她的裙子在去舞会的路上变长一些。
But while I petition God for a whole range of things, there are a few common themes that do recur. The first category of prayer comes out of the urgency of the Old Testament prophets and the Gospel itself. I pray for my ability to help those who are struggling. Christian tradition teaches that one day the world will be turned right side up and everything will return as it should be. But until that day, we're called to work on behalf of a God that chose justice and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable. 但当我向上帝祈求各种事情时，有几个共同的主题会反复出现。第一类祈祷源于旧约先知和福音书的紧迫性。我祈祷我能够帮助那些正在挣扎的人。基督教传统教导我们，有一天世界会恢复正常，一切都会回归应有的样子。但在那一天到来之前，我们被召唤去代表一位选择正义、仁慈和同情最脆弱者的上帝工作。
We've seen a lot of hardship these past two years. Not a day passes when I don't get a letter from somebody or meet someone who's out of work or lost their home or without health care. The story Randall told about his father -- that's a story that a whole lot of Americans have gone through over these past couple of years. 过去的两年我们看到了很多困难。没有一天我不收到某人的信或遇到失业、失去家园或没有医疗保险的人。兰德尔讲述的关于他父亲的故事——这是过去几年许多美国人都经历过的故事。
Sometimes I can't help right away. Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need. And it is my faith, then, that biblical injunction to serve the least of these, that keeps me going and that keeps me from being overwhelmed. 有时我无法立即提供帮助。有时我能做的——试图改善经济、遏制止赎或帮助处理医疗保健系统——有时看起来如此遥远和不足，与巨大的需求相比显得如此微不足道。正是我的信仰，即服务最卑微者的圣经训诫，让我继续前进，让我不被压倒。
It's faith that reminds me that despite being just one very imperfect man, I can still help whoever I can, however I can, wherever I can, for as long as I can, and that somehow God will buttress these efforts. 信仰提醒我，尽管我只是一个非常不完美的人，我仍然可以尽我所能帮助任何人，在任何地方，尽我所能，上帝会在某种程度上支持这些努力。
It also helps to know that none of us are alone in answering this call. It's being taken up each and every day by so many of you -- back home, your churches, your temples and synagogues, your fellow congregants -- so many faith groups across this great country of ours. 知道在回应这个召唤时我们并不孤单，这也有所帮助。每天都有许多人在承担这个使命——在你们的家乡，你们的教堂、寺庙和犹太会堂，你们的教友们——在这个伟大的国家里有许多信仰团体。
I came upon a group recently called "charity: water," a group that supports clean water projects overseas. This is a project that was started by a former nightclub promoter named Scott Harrison who grew weary of living only for himself and feeling like he wasn't following Christ as well as he should. And because of Scott's good work, "charity: water" has helped 1.7 million people get access to clean water. And in the next 10 years, he plans to make clean water accessible to a hundred million more. 我最近了解到一个叫"慈善之水"的团体，一个支持海外清洁水项目的组织。这个项目是由一位名叫斯科特·哈里森的前夜总会推广人发起的，他厌倦了只为自己而活，觉得自己没有像应该的那样跟随基督。由于斯科特的出色工作，"慈善之水"已帮助170万人获得清洁饮水。在未来10年，他计划让一亿多人获得清洁饮水。
That's the kind of promoting we need more of, and that's the kind of faith that moves mountains. And there's stories like that scattered across this room of people who've taken it upon themselves to make a difference. 这正是我们需要的更多推广，这是移山的信仰。像这样的故事散布在这个房间的各个角落，都是那些主动做出改变的人们的故事。
Now, sometimes faith groups can do the work of caring for the least of these on their own; sometimes they need a partner, whether it's in business or government. And that's why my administration has taken a fresh look at the way we organize with faith groups, the way we work with faith groups through our Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. 有时信仰团体可以独立完成关怀最卑微者的工作；有时他们需要合作伙伴，无论是在商业还是政府方面。这就是为什么我的政府重新审视了我们与信仰团体的组织方式，通过我们的信仰和邻里伙伴关系办公室与信仰团体合作的方式。
And through that office, we're expanding the way faith groups can partner with our government. We're helping them feed more kids who otherwise would go hungry. We're helping fatherhood groups get dads the support they need to be there for their children. We're working with non-profits to improve the lives of people around the world. And we're doing it in ways that are aligned with our constitutional principles. 通过这个办公室，我们正在扩大信仰团体与政府合作的方式。我们帮助他们为更多否则会挨饿的孩子提供食物。我们帮助父亲团体获得他们需要支持，以便陪伴孩子。我们与非营利组织合作，改善世界各地人民的生活。我们在符合宪法原则的情况下做这些工作。
And in this work, we intend to expand it in the days ahead, rooted in the notions of partnership and justice and the imperatives to help the poor. 在这项工作中，我们打算在未来几天扩大它，植根于伙伴关系和正义的概念，以及帮助穷人的必要性。
Of course there are some needs that require more resources than faith groups have at their disposal. There's only so much a church can do to help all the families in need -- all those who need help making a mortgage payment, or avoiding foreclosure, or making sure their child can go to college. There's only so much that a nonprofit can do to help a community rebuild in the wake of disaster. There's only so much the private sector will do to help folks who are desperately sick get the care that they need. 当然，有些需求需要比信仰团体所能提供的更多资源。教堂能做的有限——所有那些需要帮助支付抵押贷款、避免止赎或确保孩子能上大学的家庭。非营利组织在灾后重建社区方面能做的有限。私营部门会帮助那些病得很重的人获得他们需要的护理也是有限的。
And that's why I continue to believe that in a caring and in a just society, government must have a role to play; that our values, our love and our charity must find expression not just in our families, not just in our places of work and our places of worship, but also in our government and in our politics. 这就是为什么我继续相信，在一个有爱心和公正的社会中，政府必须发挥作用；我们的价值观、我们的爱和我们的慈善必须不仅在我们的家庭中、在我们的工作场所和礼拜场所中表达，也要在我们的政府和政治中表达。
Over the past two years, the nature of these obligations, the proper role of government has obviously been the subject of enormous controversy. And the debates have been fierce as one side's version of compassion and community may be interpreted by the other side as an oppressive and irresponsible expansion of the state or an unacceptable restriction on individual freedom. 在过去两年中，这些义务的性质、政府的适当角色显然一直是巨大争议的主题。辩论一直很激烈，因为一方对同情心和社区的理解可能被另一方解释为国家压迫性和不负责任的扩张，或对个人自由的不可接受的限制。
That's why a second recurring theme in my prayers is a prayer for humility. Now, God answered this prayer for me early on by having me marry Michelle. Because whether it's reminding me of a chore undone, or questioning the wisdom of watching my third football game in a row on Sunday, she keeps me humble. 这就是为什么我祈祷中第二个反复出现的主题是祈祷谦卑。上帝很早就回应了我这个祈祷，让我娶了米歇尔。因为无论是提醒我未完成的家务，还是质疑我在星期天连续看第三场橄榄球比赛的智慧，她都让我保持谦卑。
But in this life of politics when debates have become so bitterly polarized, and changes in the media lead so many of us just to listen to those who reinforce our existing biases, it's useful to go back to Scripture to remind ourselves that none of has all the answers -- none of us, no matter what our political party or our station in life. 但在政治生活中，当辩论变得如此激烈地两极分化，媒体的变化导致我们中如此多的人只听那些强化我们现有偏见的声音时，回到圣经提醒我们没有人拥有所有答案是有用的——无论我们的政治派别或生活地位如何。
The full breadth of human knowledge is like a grain of sand in God's hands. And there are some mysteries in this world we cannot fully comprehend. As it's written in Job, "God's voice thunders in marvelous ways. He does great things beyond our understandings." 人类知识的全部广度就像上帝手中的一粒沙子。这个世界上有一些奥秘我们无法完全理解。正如约伯记所写："上帝的声音以奇妙的方式轰鸣。他所做的大事超越我们的理解。"
The challenge I find then is to balance this uncertainty, this humility, with the need to fight for deeply held convictions, to be open to other points of view but firm in our core principles. And I pray for this wisdom every day. 我发现的挑战是平衡这种不确定性、这种谦卑与为深信不疑的信念而战的需要，对其他观点保持开放但坚守我们的核心原则。我每天都在为这种智慧祈祷。
I pray that God will show me and all of us the limits of our understanding, and open our ears and our hearts to our brothers and sisters with different points of view; that such reminders of our shared hopes and our shared dreams and our shared limitations as children of God will reveal the way forward that we can travel together. 我祈祷上帝会向我们所有人展示我们理解的极限，打开我们的耳朵和心灵去倾听持有不同观点的兄弟姐妹；提醒我们作为上帝的孩子共同的希望、梦想和局限性，将揭示我们可以共同前进的道路。
And the last recurring theme, one that binds all prayers together, is that I might walk closer with God and make that walk my first and most important task. 最后一个反复出现的主题，一个将所有祈祷联系在一起的主题，是我可能与上帝更亲近地同行，并使这种同行成为我首要和最重要的任务。
In our own lives it's easy to be consumed by our daily worries and our daily concerns. And it is even easier at a time when everybody is busy, everybody is stressed, and everybody -- our culture is obsessed with wealth and power and celebrity. And often it takes a brush with hardship or tragedy to shake us out of that, to remind us of what matters most. 在我们自己的生活中，很容易被日常的忧虑和关切所消耗。在每个人都忙碌、每个人都紧张、每个人都——我们的文化痴迷于财富、权力和名人的时代，这甚至更容易。通常需要遭遇困难或悲剧才能让我们摆脱这种状态，提醒我们什么是最重要的。
We see an aging parent wither under a long illness, or we lose a daughter or a husband in Afghanistan, we watch a gunman open fire in a supermarket -- and we remember how fleeting life can be. And we ask ourselves how have we treated others, whether we've told our family and friends how much we love them. And it's in these moments, when we feel most intensely our mortality and our own flaws and the sins of the world, that we most desperately seek to touch the face of God. 我们看到年迈的父母在长期疾病中消瘦，或者我们在阿富汗失去女儿或丈夫，我们看到枪手在超市开枪——我们记起生命是多么短暂。我们问自己我们是如何对待他人的，是否告诉过家人和朋友我们有多爱他们。正是在这些时刻，当我们最强烈地感受到我们的死亡、我们自己的缺陷和世界的罪恶时，我们最迫切地寻求触及上帝的面容。
So my prayer this morning is that we might seek His face not only in those moments, but each and every day; that every day as we go through the hustle and bustle of our lives, whether it's in Washington or Hollywood or anywhere in between, that we might every so often rise above the here and now, and kneel before the Eternal; that we might remember, Kaye, the fact that those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint. 所以我今天早上的祈祷是，我们不仅在那些时刻寻求他的面容，而是每一天；每一天当我们经历生活的喧嚣时，无论是在华盛顿、好莱坞还是介于两者之间的任何地方，我们可能偶尔超越此时此地，跪在永恒面前；我们可能记住，凯，等候耶和华的人必如鹰展翅上腾，他们奔跑却不困倦，行走却不疲乏。
When I wake in the morning, I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to give me the strength to do right by our country and its people. And when I go to bed at night I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to forgive me my sins, and look after my family and the American people, and make me an instrument of His will. 当我早晨醒来时，我等候耶和华，我请求他给我力量为我们的国家和人民做正确的事。当我晚上上床时，我等候耶和华，我请求他原谅我的罪过，照顾我的家人和美国人民，使我成为他旨意的工具。
I say these prayers hoping they will be answered, and I say these prayers knowing that I must work and must sacrifice and must serve to see them answered. But I also say these prayers knowing that the act of prayer itself is a source of strength. It's a reminder that our time on Earth is not just about us; that when we open ourselves to the possibility that God might have a larger purpose for our lives, there's a chance that somehow, in ways that we may never fully know, God will use us well. 我说这些祈祷，希望它们会得到回应；我说这些祈祷，知道我必须工作、必须牺牲、必须服务才能看到它们得到回应。但我也说这些祈祷，知道祈祷本身的力量就是力量的源泉。它提醒我们，我们在地球上的时光不仅仅关乎我们自己；当我们向上帝可能对我们生命有更大目的的可能性敞开心扉时，有机会以我们可能永远无法完全知晓的方式，上帝会善用我们。
May the Lord bless you and keep you, and may He bless this country that we love. 愿主保佑你们，守护你们，愿他保佑我们所爱的这个国家。