Mar 1, 2016 20:20
8 yrs ago
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English term
Brazil
IT Specialist • M.A. in Linguistics
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, and 1 more.
you may depend on it
English
Art/Literary
Religion
Context:
"If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray."
I just don't understand the connection between "you may depend upon it" and the rest of the sentence.
Can anybody please enlighten me?
My understanding so far: if your life of prayer is short and easy and spiritual, and if you don't have to make any efforts, .... that's because you haven't really begun to pray (you're not actually praying).
What do you guys think?
Thanks!!
"If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray."
I just don't understand the connection between "you may depend upon it" and the rest of the sentence.
Can anybody please enlighten me?
My understanding so far: if your life of prayer is short and easy and spiritual, and if you don't have to make any efforts, .... that's because you haven't really begun to pray (you're not actually praying).
What do you guys think?
Thanks!!
Responses
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you may be sure
If it's easy, you're not doing it right :-)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you so much!!"
7 mins
you may be complacent with what is not really a prayer-life
My take
Peer comment(s):
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AllegroTrans
: That may be the case but it's not what the source text says
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Agreed. Thanks for your input.
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Tushar Deep
7 hrs
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Thank you!
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Sheila Wilson
: That doesn't fit at all with the asked term
19 hrs
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Thanks for your feedback.
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