What is your favorite verse from your holy book and/or your favorite quote from your founder?
2007-03-13 05:23:52 · 42 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
neitzche god is dead
2007-03-13 05:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 7⤋
I'm an Ásatrúarmenn . We have no Holy book, at least not in the Kristjan sense. What we do have are the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda, our Sagas, and the Nine Noble Virtues, none of which is dogma. The closest thing we have to "founder" is Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, who started the modern reconstuction of our ANCIENT faith(over 40,000yrs old). A few of my favorite passages from the Hávamál are:
119
If you know a friend you can fully trust,
Go often to his house
Grass and brambles grow quickly
Upon the untrodden track.
120
With a good man it is good to talk,
Make him your fast friend:
But waste no words on a witless oaf,
Nor sit with a senseless ape.
121
Cherish those near you, never be
The first to break with a friend:
Care eats him who can no longer
Open his heart to another.
122
An evil man, if you make him your friend,
Will give you evil for good:
123
A good man, if you make him your friend";
Will praise you in every place,
124
Affection is mutual when men can open
All their heart to each other:
He whose words are always fair
Is untrue and not to be trusted.
125
Bandy no speech with a bad man:
Often the better is beaten
In a word fight by the worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asatru
2007-03-13 05:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
My favorite verse is from Psalm 83:18 of the KJV:
"That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."
My favorite quote from our founder, Jesus Christ, is found in the last part of Matthew 28:20 --
"I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
2007-03-13 05:36:14 · answer #3 · answered by Abdijah 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...
I don't have a religion, a holy book or a founder for my beliefs. Well, not a human one anyway.
Instead of having favorite verses I look at the beauty of life, of creation itself - and the fact that it is a way for us to know God. That creation is a physical manifestation of God's love for us.
When I was Christian, one of my favorite verses from the bible came from the Song of Songs:
"Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is a strong as death,
its jealousy unyeilding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a might flame.
Many waters cannot quence love;
rivers cannot wash it away"
SoS 8:5b-7a
The other one I always like came from the Psalms:
"When I am afraid,
I will trust in you.
In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can mortal man do to me:
Psalm 56:3-4
2007-03-13 05:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by noncrazed 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Quotes from Guidance from Silver Birch
There is no joy and no service that can match helping others. In a world so full of darkness, where millions have lost their way, where there are countless numbers troubled and perplexed with sorrow in their hearts, who awake each morning in fear and apprehension of what the day brings - if you can help one soul to find some serenity and to realise that he/she is not neglected, but surrounded by arms of infinite love, that is a great work. It is more important than anything else.
2007-03-13 06:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by Peace 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Here's the affirmation from a Unitarian Church. I think it's cool because it redefines things in a way that is meaningful and doesn't demand that members adhere to a creed.
Love is the doctrine of this church
The quest for truth is its sacrament
And service is its prayer
To dwell together in peace,
To seek knowledge in freedom
To serve humanity in harmony with the Earth
Thus do we covenant together.
2007-03-13 05:32:43 · answer #6 · answered by Behaviorist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Behold, I teach you the Overman. All gods are dead now we want the Overman and that the Overman shall live. The Overman is the meaning of the Earth. Let your will say the Overman shall be the meaning of the Earth.
2007-03-15 07:28:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like each & every verse of the Holy Quran from beginning to end.
" Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. "
( Al-Qur'an 3 : 110 )
2007-03-13 06:40:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"this is my body, take and eat, do this for the rememberance of me"
i'm not sure the book/chapter/verse, but was my favorite part of Sunday School. Everytime I put it in my mouth, I could almost taste heaven!
2007-03-13 05:30:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That the Hand of the Lord is upon us. Because that is what keeps us on the earth.
Those ant-gravity people are heretics and opposing God's will with all their balloon freeing and blimp riding. They are going to be in for a shock when God slams them down!
2007-03-13 05:28:03 · answer #10 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hard to choose just one but this particular one fills me with hope for the future :But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell. 2 Peter 3:13
2007-03-13 05:30:15 · answer #11 · answered by babydoll 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋