Well, good morning. 大家早上好。
Giving all praise and honor to God for bringing us together here this morning. 将一切赞美和荣耀归于上帝，感谢他让我们今天早晨相聚在这里。
I want to thank everyone who helped organize this breakfast, especially our co-chairs, Robert and Juan, who embody the tradition of friendship, fellowship, and prayer. I will begin with a confession: I have always felt a tinge of guilt motorcading up here at the heart of D.C.'s rush hour. I suspect that not all the commuters were blessing me as they waited to get to work. But it's for a good cause. A National Prayer Brunch doesn't have the same ring to it. 我要感谢每一位帮助组织这次早餐会的人，特别是我们的联合主席罗伯特和胡安，他们体现了友谊、团契和祷告的传统。我要先做一个告白：我一直对在华盛顿早高峰时分乘着车队来到这里感到一丝愧疚。我猜不是所有通勤的人在等上班的时候都在为我祝福。但这是为了一个好的目的。"全国祈祷早午餐"听起来就没那么有感觉了。
And Michelle and I are extremely honored, as always, to be with so many friends, with members of Congress, with faith leaders from across the country and around the world, to be with the Speaker, Leader. I want to thank Mark and Roma for their friendship and their extraordinary story, and sharing those inspiring words. Andre, for sharing his remarkable gifts. 米歇尔和我非常荣幸，一如既往地，能与这么多朋友、国会议员、来自全国和世界各地的宗教领袖在一起，与众议院议长和领袖在一起。我要感谢马克和萝玛的友谊，感谢他们非凡的故事，以及分享那些鼓舞人心的话语。感谢安德烈分享他卓越的才华。
And on this occasion, I always enjoy reflecting on a piece of scripture that's been meaningful to me or otherwise sustained me throughout the year. And lately, I've been thinking and praying on a verse from Second Timothy: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 每逢这个场合，我总喜欢回想一段对我有意义、或在这一年中支撑着我的经文。最近，我一直在思考和祷告《提摩太后书》中的一节经文："因为神赐给我们，不是胆怯的心，乃是刚强、仁爱、谨守的心。" 神赐给我们的不是胆怯的心，乃是刚强、仁爱、谨守的心。
We live in extraordinary times. Times of extraordinary change. We're surrounded by tectonic shifts in technology and in our economy; by destructive conflict, disruptions to our climate. And it all reshapes the way we work and the way we live. It's all amplified by a media that is unceasing, and that feeds 24/7 on our ever-shrinking attention spans. 我们生活在非凡的时代。一个充满非凡变革的时代。我们被技术和经济的结构性转变、破坏性的冲突、气候的紊乱所包围。这一切都在重塑我们的工作方式和生活方式。而无休止的媒体放大了这一切，它全天候地消耗着我们日益缩短的注意力。
And as a student of history, I often remind people that the challenges that we face are not unique; that in fact, the threats of previous eras -- civil war or world war or cold war, depressions or famines -- those challenges put our own in perspective. Moreover, I believe that our unique strengths as a nation make us better equipped than others to harness this change to work for us, rather than against us. 作为一名历史研究者，我经常提醒人们，我们面临的挑战并非独一无二；事实上，以往时代的威胁——内战、世界大战、冷战、大萧条、饥荒——那些挑战让我们当下的挑战显得相形见绌。而且，我相信我们作为一个国家的独特优势，使我们比其他国家更有能力驾驭这种变革，让它为我们所用，而非与我们为敌。
And yet, the sheer rapidity of change, and the uncertainty that it brings, is real. The hardship of a family trying to make ends meet. Refugees fleeing from a war-torn home. Those things are real. Terrorism, eroding shorelines -- those things are real. Even the very progress that humanity has made, the affluence, the stability that so many of us enjoy, far greater prosperity than any previous generation of humanity has experienced, shines a brighter light on those who still struggle, reveal the gap in prospects that exist for the children of the world. 然而，变革的速度之快，以及它带来的不确定性，是真实存在的。一个家庭勉强维持生计的艰辛。逃离战火家园的难民。这些都是真实的。恐怖主义、不断侵蚀的海岸线——这些都是真实的。即便是人类取得的进步、我们许多人享有的富足和稳定，比以往任何一代人都经历过的更大繁荣，也让那些仍在挣扎的人更加显眼，让世界儿童之间的前景差距更加明显。
And that gap between want and plenty, it gives us vertigo. It can make us afraid, not only of the possibility that progress will stall, but that maybe we have more to lose. And fear does funny things. Fear can lead us to lash out against those who are different, or lead us to try to get some sinister "other" under control. Alternatively, fear can lead us to succumb to despair, or paralysis, or cynicism. Fear can feed our most selfish impulses, and erode the bonds of community. 而这种匮乏与富足之间的差距，让我们感到眩晕。它会让我们感到恐惧，不仅担心进步可能停滞，还担心我们可能会失去更多。恐惧会带来奇怪的后果。恐惧会让我们对不同的人怒目相向，或让我们试图控制某个险恶的"他者"。或者，恐惧会让我们陷入绝望、麻痹或犬儒主义。恐惧会滋养我们最自私的冲动，侵蚀社区的纽带。
It is a primal emotion -- fear -- one that we all experience. And it can be contagious, spreading through societies, and through nations. And if we let it consume us, the consequences of that fear can be worse than any outward threat. 恐惧是一种原始的情感——我们所有人都会经历。它具有传染性，会在社会中、在国家间蔓延。如果我们任由它吞噬我们，恐惧带来的后果可能比任何外在威胁都更严重。
For me, and I know for so many of you, faith is the great cure for fear. Jesus is a good cure for fear. God gives believers the power, the love, the sound mind required to conquer any fear. And what more important moment for that faith than right now? What better time than these changing, tumultuous times to have Jesus standing beside us, steadying our minds, cleansing our hearts, pointing us towards what matters. 对我而言，我知道对你们许多人来说也是如此，信仰是治愈恐惧的良方。耶稣是治愈恐惧的良方。神赐予信徒征服任何恐惧所需的力量、仁爱和谨守的心。还有什么比此刻更需要这种信仰呢？还有什么比这些变革动荡的时代，更需要耶稣站在我们身旁，安定我们的心思，洁净我们的心灵，指引我们走向重要的事呢？
His love gives us the power to resist fear's temptations. He gives us the courage to reach out to others across that divide, rather than push people away. He gives us the courage to go against the conventional wisdom and stand up for what's right, even when it's not popular. To stand up not just to our enemies but, sometimes, to stand up to our friends. 他的爱赋予我们抵抗恐惧诱惑的力量。他赐给我们勇气，跨越分歧向他人伸出手，而非将人推开。他赐给我们勇气，违背常规，挺身而出做正确的事，哪怕那不受欢迎。不仅要对抗我们的敌人，有时还要对抗我们的朋友。
He gives us the fortitude to sacrifice ourselves for a larger cause. Or to make tough decisions knowing that we can only do our best. Less of me, more of God. And then, to have the courage to admit our failings and our sins while pledging to learn from our mistakes and to try to do better. 他赐给我们为更大的事业牺牲自己的坚韧。或者在知道我们只能尽力而为时做出艰难的决定。减少自我，更多彰显神。然后，有勇气承认我们的失败和罪，同时承诺从错误中学习，努力做得更好。
Certainly, during the course of this enormous privilege to have served as the President of the United States, that's what faith has done for me. It helps me deal with the common, everyday fears that we all share. The main one I'm feeling right now is that our children grow up too fast. They're leaving. That's a tough deal. And so, as a parent, you're worrying about will some harm befall them, how are they going to manage without you, did you miss some central moment in their lives. 当然，在担任美国总统这一巨大殊荣的过程中，信仰正是这样帮助我的。它帮助我应对我们所有人都有的日常恐惧。我现在最大的恐惧是我们的孩子长得太快了。他们就要离开了。这真让人难受。所以作为父母，你会担心他们会不会受到伤害，没有你他们该怎么办，你是不是错过了他们生命中的某个重要时刻。
Will they call? Or text? Each day, we're fearful that God's purpose becomes elusive, cloudy. We try to figure out how we fit into his broader plan. They're universal fears that we have, and my faith helps me to manage those. 他们会打电话来吗？还是发短信？每一天，我们都害怕神的旨意变得难以捉摸、模糊不清。我们试图弄明白我们如何融入他更宏大的计划。这些是我们共有的普遍恐惧，而我的信仰帮助我应对这些。
And then my faiths helps me to deal with some of the unique elements of my job. As one of the great departed heroes of our age, Nelson Mandela, once said, "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it... The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." 然后，我的信仰帮助我处理工作中的一些独特挑战。正如我们这个时代最伟大的逝去英雄之一纳尔逊·曼德拉曾说过的："我认识到，勇气不是没有恐惧，而是战胜恐惧……勇敢的人不是不感到害怕的人，而是征服了恐惧的人。"
And certainly, there are times where I've had to repeat that to myself while holding this office. When you hear from a parade of experts, just days after you're elected, that another Great Depression is a very real possibility -- that will get your attention. When you tell a room full of young cadets that you've made a decision to send them into harm's way, knowing that some of them might not return safely -- that's sobering. 当然，在任期间，我有时不得不反复对自己说这句话。当你当选几天后，就听到一大批专家说另一场大萧条很有可能发生——这会让你警觉起来。当你告诉一屋子年轻学员，你已决定派他们奔赴险境，知道他们中有些人可能无法平安归来——这令人警醒。
When you hold in your arms the mothers and fathers of innocent children gunned down in their classroom -- that reminds you there's evil in the world. And so you come to understand what President Lincoln meant when he said that he'd been driven to his knees by the overwhelming conviction that he had no place else to go. 当你把在教室里被枪杀的无辜孩子的父母抱在怀中时——这让你想起世界上有邪恶存在。于是你开始理解林肯总统所说的话，他说自己被一种压倒性的信念逼到了跪下来的地步，那就是他别无去处。
And so like every President, like every leader, like every person, I've known fear. But my faith tells me that I need not fear death; that the acceptance of Christ promises everlasting life and the washing away of sins. If Scripture instructs me to "put on the full armor of God" so that when trouble comes, I'm able to stand, then surely I can face down these temporal setbacks, surely I can battle back doubts, surely I can rouse myself to action. 所以和每一位总统、每一位领袖、每一个人一样，我也曾经历恐惧。但我的信仰告诉我，我不必惧怕死亡；接受基督就意味着永生和罪得赦免。如果圣经教导我要"穿上神全副的军装"，以便患难来临时我能够站立得住，那么我当然可以直面这些暂时的挫折，我当然可以击退疑虑，我当然可以振作起来采取行动。
And should that faith waver, should I lose my way, I have drawn strength not only from a remarkable wife, not only from incredible colleagues and friends, but I have drawn strength from witnessing all across this country and all around this world, good people, of all faiths, who do the Lord's work each and every day, Who wield that power and love, and sound mind to feed the hungry and heal the sick, to teach our children and welcome the stranger. 如果信仰动摇了，如果我迷失了方向，我不仅从一位出色的妻子、从杰出的同事和朋友那里汲取力量，我还从亲眼目睹的、遍及全国和全世界的善良人们身上汲取力量——各个信仰的好人，他们每天都在做主的工作，用那力量、仁爱和谨守的心，喂饱饥饿的人，医治病人，教导我们的孩子，欢迎陌生人。
Think about the extraordinary work of the congregations and faith communities represented here today. Whether fighting global poverty or working to end the scourge of human trafficking, you are the leaders of what Pope Francis calls "this march of living hope." 想想今天在座的各教会和信仰社区所做的非凡工作。无论是抗击全球贫困，还是努力终结人口贩卖的祸害，你们都是教皇方济各所说的"这场充满盼望的生命行军"的引领者。
When the Earth cleaves in Haiti, Christians, Sikhs, and other faith groups sent volunteers to distribute aid, tend to the wounded, rebuild homes for the homeless. 当地震袭击海地时，基督徒、锡克教徒和其他信仰团体派出志愿者分发援助物资、照料伤员、为无家可归者重建家园。
When Ebola ravaged West Africa, Jewish, Christian, Muslim groups responded to the outbreak to save lives. And as the news fanned the flames of fear, churches and mosques responded with a powerful rebuke, welcoming survivors into their pews. 当埃博拉肆虐西非时，犹太教、基督教、穆斯林团体纷纷响应疫情救援，拯救生命。当新闻煽动恐惧之火时，教堂和清真寺以有力的回应反击，欢迎幸存者进入他们的会堂。
When nine worshippers were murdered in a Charleston church basement, it was people of all faiths who came together to wrap a shattered community in love and understanding. 当九名礼拜者在查尔斯顿一座教堂的地下室被谋杀时，是各个信仰的人们走到一起，用爱与理解包裹一个破碎的社区。
When Syrian refugees seek the sanctuary of our shores, it's the faithful from synagogues, mosques, temples, and churches who welcome them, the first to offer blankets and food and open their homes. Even now, people of different faiths and beliefs are coming together to help people suffering in Flint. 当叙利亚难民寻求我们海岸的庇护时，是来自犹太会堂、清真寺、寺庙和教堂的信众欢迎他们，最先提供毯子、食物并敞开家门。就在此刻，不同信仰和信念的人们正团结起来帮助弗林特受难的人们。
And then there's the most -- less spectacular, more quiet efforts of congregations all across this country just helping people. Seeing God in others. And we're driven to do this because we're driven by the value that so many of our faiths teach us -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper. As Christians, we do this compelled by the Gospel of Jesus -- the command to love God, and love one another. 还有全国各地的会众那些不那么引人注目、更为安静的助人努力。在他人身上看见神。我们之所以这样做，是因为我们被众多信仰所教导的价值观所驱动——我是我兄弟的守护者，我是我姐妹的守护者。作为基督徒，我们这样做是受耶稣福音的催逼——爱神、爱人的命令。
And so, yes, like every person, there are times where I'm fearful. But my faith and, more importantly, the faith that I've seen in so many of you, the God I see in you, that makes me inevitably hopeful about our future. I have seen so many who know that God has not given us a spirit of fear. He has given us power, and love, and a sound mind. 所以，是的，和每个人一样，我有时也会感到恐惧。但我的信仰，更重要的是，我在你们许多人身上看到的信仰，我在你们身上看到的神，让我对我们的未来不可避免地充满盼望。我见过太多人知道神没有赐给我们胆怯的心。他赐给我们力量、仁爱和谨守的心。
We see that spirit in people like Pastor Saeed Abedini, imprisoned for no crime other than holding God in his heart. And last year, we prayed that he might be freed. And this year, we give thanks that he is home safe. 我们在像赛义德·阿贝迪尼牧师这样的人身上看到这种精神，他只因心中持守信仰而被监禁，没有任何其他罪名。去年，我们祷告他能获释。今年，我们感恩他平安回家了。
We pray for God's protection for all around the world who are not free to practice their faith, including Christians who are persecuted, or who have been driven from their ancient homelands by unspeakable violence. And just as we call on other countries to respect the rights of religious minorities, we, too, respect the right of every single American to practice their faith freely. 我们为世界各地所有不能自由践行信仰的人祈求神的保护，包括受迫害的基督徒，或被难以形容的暴力赶出古老家园的基督徒。正如我们呼吁其他国家尊重宗教少数群体的权利一样，我们也尊重每一个美国人自由践行信仰的权利。
For this is what each of us is called on to do: To seek our common humanity in each other. To make sure our politics and our public discourse reflect that same spirit of love and sound mind. To assume the best in each other and not just the worst -- and not just at the National Prayer Breakfast. To begin each of our works from the shared belief that all of us want what's good and right for our country and our future. 因为这是我们每个人都被呼召去做的事：在彼此身上寻求我们共同的人性。确保我们的政治和公共话语反映出同样的仁爱和谨守的精神。对彼此抱有最好的期待，而非只想到最坏的——而且不只是在全国祈祷早餐会上。从一个共同的信念出发开始我们的每一项工作：我们所有人都希望我们的国家和未来美好、正确。
We can draw such strength from the quiet moments of heroism around us every single day. And so let me close with two such stories that I've come to know just over the past week. 我们可以从每天身边那些默默的英雄时刻中汲取这样的力量。所以，让我以过去一周我刚了解到的两个这样的故事来结束。
A week ago, I spoke at a ceremony held at the Israeli Embassy for the first time, honoring the courage of people who saved Jews during the Holocaust. And one of the recipients was the grandson -- or the son of an American soldier who had been captured by the Nazis. So a group of American soldiers are captured, and their captors ordered Jewish POWs to identify themselves. And one sergeant, a Christian named Roddie Edmonds, from Tennessee, ordered all American troops to report alongside them. 一周前，我首次在以色列大使馆举行的一场仪式上发表讲话，纪念在大屠杀中拯救犹太人的人们的勇气。其中一位获奖者是一名被纳粹俘虏的美国士兵的孙子——或者儿子。一群美国士兵被俘，俘虏他们的人命令犹太战俘站出来指认自己。一名中士，来自田纳西州的基督徒罗迪·埃德蒙兹，命令所有美军士兵和他们一起站出来。
They lined up in formation, approximately 200 of them, and the Nazi colonel said, "I asked only for the Jewish POWs," and said, "These can't all be Jewish." And Master Sergeant Edmonds stood there and said, "We are all Jews." And the colonel took out his pistol and held it to the Master Sergeant's head and said, "Tell me who the Jews are." And he repeated, "We are all Jews." And faced with the choice of shooting all those soldiers, the Nazis relented. And so, through his moral clarity, through an act of faith, Sergeant Edmonds saved the lives of his Jewish brothers-in-arms. 他们排成队列，大约两百人，纳粹上校说："我只叫犹太战俘出来，"还说，"不可能全都是犹太人。" 埃德蒙兹军士长站在那里说："我们都是犹太人。" 上校掏出手枪抵着军士长的头说："告诉我谁是犹太人。" 他重复道："我们都是犹太人。" 面对要枪毙所有这些士兵的抉择，纳粹退缩了。就这样，通过他的道德勇气，通过一个信仰的行动，埃德蒙兹中士挽救了他的犹太战友们的生命。
A second story. Just yesterday, some of you may be aware I visited a mosque in Baltimore to let our Muslim-American brothers and sisters know that they, too, are Americans and welcome here. And there I met a Muslim-American named Rami Nashashibi, who runs a nonprofit working for social change in Chicago. And he forms coalitions with churches and Latino groups and African Americans in this poor neighborhood in Chicago. 第二个故事。就在昨天，你们中有些人可能知道，我访问了巴尔的摩的一座清真寺，让我们的穆斯林美国兄弟姐妹知道，他们也是美国人，这里欢迎他们。在那里我遇到了一位名叫拉米·纳哈希比的穆斯林美国人，他在芝加哥经营一个致力于社会变革的非营利组织。他与教堂、拉丁裔团体和非裔美国人在芝加哥这个贫困社区结成联盟。
And he told me how the day after the tragedy in San Bernardino happened, he took his three young children to a playground in the Marquette Park neighborhood, and while they were out, the time came for one of the five daily prayers that are essential to the Muslim tradition. And on any other day, he told me, he would have immediately put his rug out on the grass right there and prayed. 他告诉我，圣贝纳迪诺惨案发生后的第二天，他带着三个年幼的孩子去马凯特公园附近的一个游乐场，他们在外面的时候，到了穆斯林传统中每日五次礼拜中一次礼拜的时间。他说，换做其他任何一天，他会当场就把拜毯铺在草地上礼拜。
But that day, he paused. He feared any unwelcome attention he might attract to himself and his children. And his seven year-old daughter asked him, "What are you doing, Dad? Isn't it time to pray?" And he thought of all the times he had told her the story of the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rabbi Robert Marx, and 700 other people marched to that very same park, enduring hatred and bigotry, dodging rocks and bottles, and hateful words, in order to challenge Chicago housing segregation, and to ask America to live up to our highest ideals. 但那天，他犹豫了。他担心可能会给自己和孩子们招来不必要的注意。他七岁的女儿问他："爸爸，你在做什么？不是该礼拜了吗？" 他想起了那么多次他给她讲的故事——马丁·路德·金博士、罗伯特·马克斯拉比和其他七百人游行到那个公园的那一天，他们忍受仇恨和偏见，躲避石块、瓶子和恶言，为的是挑战芝加哥的住房隔离，呼吁美国践行我们最高的理想。
And so, at that moment, drawing from the courage of men of different religions, of a different time, Rami refused to teach his children to be afraid. Instead, he taught them to be a part of that legacy of faith and good conscience. "I want them to understand that sometimes faith will be tested," he told me, "and that we will be asked to show immense courage, like others have before us, to make our city, our country, and our world a better reflection of all our ideals." And he put down his rug and he prayed. 于是，在那一刻，从不同宗教、不同时代的人们的勇气中汲取力量，拉米拒绝教他的孩子们恐惧。相反，他教他们成为那份信仰与良知遗产的一部分。"我希望他们明白，信仰有时会受到考验，"他告诉我，"我们会被要求展现出巨大的勇气，就像前人一样，让我们的城市、我们的国家、我们的世界更好地体现我们所有的理想。" 然后他铺下拜毯，做了礼拜。
Now, those two stories, they give me courage and they give me hope. And they instruct me in my own Christian faith. I can't imagine a moment in which that young American sergeant expressed his Christianity more profoundly than when, confronted by his own death, he said "We are all Jews." I can't imagine a clearer expression of Jesus's teachings. I can't imagine a better expression of the peaceful spirit of Islam than when a Muslim father, filled with fear, drew from the example of a Baptist preacher and a Jewish rabbi to teach his children what God demands. 现在，这两个故事给了我勇气，也给了我盼望。它们也教导了我自己的基督教信仰。我无法想象，那位年轻的美国中士在面对死亡时说出"我们都是犹太人"的那一刻，比任何时候都更深刻地表达了他的基督教信仰。我无法想象还有比这更清晰的耶稣教导的体现。我无法想象还有比这更好的伊斯兰教和平精神的表达——一位充满恐惧的穆斯林父亲，从一位浸信会牧师和一位犹太拉比的榜样中汲取力量，教导他的孩子们神的要求。
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I pray that by His grace, we all find the courage to set such examples in our own lives -- not just during this wonderful gathering and fellowship, not just in the public piety that we profess, but in those smaller moments when it's difficult, when we're challenged, when we're angry, when we're confronted with someone who doesn't agree with us, when no one is watching. 因为神赐给我们的不是胆怯的心，乃是刚强、仁爱、谨守的心。我祈求，藉着他的恩典，我们都能找到勇气在自己的生活中树立这样的榜样——不只是在这个美好的聚会和团契中，不只是在我们公开表达的虔诚中，而是在那些困难的、受挑战的、愤怒的、遇到与我们意见不同的人的、无人注视的微小时刻。
I pray, as Roma so beautifully said, that our differences ultimately are bridged; that the God that is in each of us comes together, and we don't divide. 我祈求，正如萝玛优美地所说，我们的分歧最终会被弥合；我们每个人里面的神将合而为一，我们不会分裂。
I pray that our leaders will always act with humility and generosity. I pray that my failings are forgiven. I pray that we will uphold our obligation to be good stewards of God's creation -- this beautiful planet. I pray that we will see every single child as our own, each worthy of our love and of our compassion. And I pray we answer Scripture's call to lift up the vulnerable, and to stand up for justice, and ensure that every human being lives in dignity. 我祈求我们的领袖永远以谦卑和慷慨行事。我祈求我的过犯得到赦免。我祈求我们将恪守作神创造的好管家的责任——这颗美丽的星球。我祈求我们将每一个孩子都视为自己的孩子，每一个都配得我们的爱和怜悯。我祈求我们回应圣经的呼召，扶助弱势群体，伸张正义，确保每一个人都活得有尊严。
That's my prayer for this breakfast, and for this country, in the years to come. May God bless you, and may He continue to bless this country that we love. 这就是我为这次早餐会、为这个国家在未来岁月的祷告。愿神祝福你们，愿他继续祝福我们深爱的这个国家。