The Cistercians wanted a simpler, more austere spiritual life.

西妥教团想要一种更简单、更朴素的精神生活。

I spend time every day nursing a vibrant imagination and rich spiritual life.

我每天都花时间护理充满活力的想象力和丰富的精神生活。

He said pride and self-interest is harmful to their spiritual lives and corrupts the Church's purpose.

他说，骄傲和自私自利对他们的精神生活有害，破坏了教会的宗旨。

You live your spiritual life like you’re eternal.

你要像是永生般去过你的灵性生活。

Your spiritual life you must do it that you are eternal.

你的灵性生活，你必须像你是永生般去过。

So the theological language is in service of the spiritual life that way.

神学语言就是这样为灵性生活服务的。

Secondly, museum and theater is crucial to a nation's people's spiritual life.

其次，博物馆和剧院对于一个民族的精神生活至关重要。

And there are philosophers who believe that man's spiritual life is no more free than the bodily processes.

还有一些哲学家认为，人的精神生活并不比身体过程更自由。

It is the exception who comprehends that physical and spiritual life may stream out of him for ever.

只有例外才能理解肉体和精神生命可能永远从他身上流出。

Perhaps that's one of the reasons why Duvalier's circle was so keen on it, as the clearest signal that Haiti lived a distinct spiritual life.

也许这就是为什么杜瓦利埃的圈子如此热衷于这个教派的原因之一，因为它是海地有着独特的精神生活的最明显的信号 。

He gives us a reflection of our awakening spiritual lives: immature in its understanding of the world, but profoundly rich in its emotional experience of it.

他给我们展现了我们觉醒的灵魂——这些灵魂对世界的理解仍然青涩，但情感体验十分丰富。

They believe that the animals painted were those central to the symbolic and spiritual life of the times; animals that represented something deep and spiritual to the people.

他们相信画中的这些动物都是当时象征和精神生活的中心，这些动物代表着当时人们精神深处的某种事物。

The Christians themselves while not openly opposing the roman government still focused less on this secular world that is their everyday lives as Romans and more on their spiritual lives as disciples of Jesus Christ.

基督徒自己并没有公然反对罗马政府，而是与俗世，也就是作为罗马人的日常生活保持一种脱离的状态，更聚焦于自己作为耶稣门徒的精神生活。

The so called five good emperors ruled to ensure the safety and well being of the roman world's inhabitants but they didn't really do that much for the intellectual or spiritual life of the Roman world.

五贤帝的统治确保了罗马帝国居民的安全，促进了他们的福祉，但是他们并没有为罗马世界的知识和精神生活作出多少贡献。

In conclusion, although the 21st century has indeed given us a lot of advantages, it may not have made us wiser, because it has also made our earth dirtier, our people less humane, and our spiritual life poorer.

综上所述，虽然21世纪确实给了我们很多好处，但它未必让我们变得更聪明，因为它也让我们的地球更脏，我们的人更不人道，我们的精神生活更贫乏。