Whats your favourite religion based quote?

I (Jesus) make all things new - Revelation 21:5

Christopher Hitchens: “Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet – who was only another male mammal – is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.”

An' it harm none, do as ye will

although this one had more bearing on my life direction:

" I’ve had a bellyful of the god and priest business! You

think I don’t see my own mythos? Consult your data once

more, Hayt. I’ve insinuated my rites into the most

elementary human acts. The people eat in the name of

Muad’Dib! They make love in my name, are born in my name-

even cross the street in my name. A roof beam cannot be

raised in the lowliest hovel of far Gangishree without

invoking the blessing of Muad’Dib!

-Book of Diatribes

from The Hayt Chronicle"

From Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert

Bart: Wow! God is so on your face. Homer: Yea, he’s my favourite fictional character. think we’ve chosen the incorrect god. each and every time we bypass to church we’re basically making him madder and madder. - Homer i like those 2 the wonderful as a results of fact they made me laugh the main. they are all great expenses from formerly the simpsons became c**p.

It's difficult to choose out of my four favorites. I guess the best would be:

"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~ Emmanuel Teney

I love George Carlin's lucidity, even if I don't always agree with him...

"What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge—he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil—he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor—he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desire—he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy—all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was—that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love—he was not man.

Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin. His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that he lives.

They call it a morality of mercy and a doctrine of love for man.

No, they say, they do not preach that man is evil, the evil is only that alien object: his body. No, they say, they do not wish to kill him, they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him, they say, against his pain—and they point at the torture rack to which they’ve tied him, the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions, the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.

They have cut man in two, setting one half against the other. They have taught him that his body and his consciousness are two enemies engaged in deadly conflict, two antagonists of opposite natures, contradictory claims, incompatible needs, that to benefit one is to injure the other, that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm, but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body, to undermine it by years of patient struggle, digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.

They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man’s nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent, that only the unknowable exists.

Do you observe what human faculty that doctrine was designed to ignore? It was man’s mind that had to be negated in order to make him fall apart. Once he surrendered reason, he was left at the mercy of two monsters whom he could not fathom or control: of a body moved by unaccountable instincts and of a soul moved by mystic revelations-he was left as the passively ravaged victim of a battle between a robot and a Dictaphone."

- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged -

This is why I laugh when religious people wave around Atlas Shrugged...

One of my contacts said this:

"...abiding in Christ makes us new. It often involves restoration, and excavation - invariably, God re-molds us into the person He intended for us to be. We are made in His image, and we are called to be holy. That includes genuine innocence, and delight, and faith. Being returned to that is one of the most wonderful, woefully under-mentioned aspects of faith in Christ."

Matthew 7:7-8

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

for me it is a tie between "The Glory of God is intelligence, Light and Truth", "Be thou an example of the believers" and "May we be true Christians in deed, as well as in word."

“Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.”

–Saint Francis of Assisi