What is your favorite verse?

[chloe]

What is your favorite verse, excerpt, or prayer from any religious books, spiritual books and philosophical books ? Please share them with me.

 

[tigerbob]

What is your favorite verse, excerpt, or prayer from any religious books, spiritual books and philosophical books ? Please share them with me.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

No idea where in the bible this is from (I'm not particularly religious). It just seems to me the world would be a better place if people lived their lives this way.

 

[chloe]

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

No idea where in the bible this is from (I'm not particularly religious). It just seems to me the world would be a better place if people lived their lives this way.

Thanks Bob !

 

[Againsheila]

The Golden Rule is in the old testament. I like that and the 23 Psalm.

I used to like the story of Ruth, but then I grew up and realized that she was an idiot. I'm so glad women in this country have rights.

 

[tigerbob]

The Golden Rule is in the old testament. I like that and the 23 Psalm.

I used to like the story of Ruth, but then I grew up and realized that she was an idiot. I'm so glad women in this country have rights.

Is "Do unto others..." really called The Golden Rule? I never knew that.

 

[Againsheila]

Is "Do unto others..." really called The Golden Rule? I never knew that.

Yep it was the first thing I learned in first grade. They used to teach The Golden Rule in schools but since it's the basis of almost every religion on earth, they no longer teach it. I consider that a crime.

 

[tigerbob]

Yep it was the first thing I learned in first grade. They used to teach The Golden Rule in schools but since it's the basis of almost every religion on earth, they no longer teach it. I consider that a crime.

Yes. That's bizarre.

 

[chloe]

The Golden Rule is in the old testament. I like that and the 23 Psalm.

I used to like the story of Ruth, but then I grew up and realized that she was an idiot. I'm so glad women in this country have rights.

23rd Psalm:

The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name' sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.


Pretty nice sheila thanks. What was the summary about ruth? why was she an idiot ?

 

[tigerbob]

23rd Psalm:

The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name' sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.


Pretty nice sheila thanks. What was the summary about ruth? why was she an idiot ?

Psalm 23 was the first hymn at both my mother's and my father's funeral.

 

[chloe]

I like this bible one, a fella I used to be friends with told me it was his favorite and it always stuck with me for some reason, even though he was an ass. hehe....

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.

And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I dole out all my goods, and
if I deliver my body that I may boast
but have not love, nothing I am profited.

Love is long suffering,
love is kind,
it is not jealous,
love does not boast,
it is not inflated.

It is not discourteous,
it is not selfish,
it is not irritable,
it does not enumerate the evil.
It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truth

It covers all things,
it has faith for all things,
it hopes in all things,
it endures in all things.

Love never falls in ruins;
but whether prophecies, they will be abolished; or
tongues, they will cease; or
knowledge, it will be superseded.

For we know in part and we prophecy in part.

But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded.

When I was an infant,
I spoke as an infant,
I reckoned as an infant;

when I became [an adult],
I abolished the things of the infant.

For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known.

But now remains
faith, hope, love,

these three;

but the greatest of these is love.


The main part I comprehend is that love is the best thing and rocks.

 

[Againsheila]

23rd Psalm:

The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name' sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.


Pretty nice sheila thanks. What was the summary about ruth? why was she an idiot ?

Well, she marries a guy who dies. She follows his mother, they live very poorly, having to glean the fields for wheat to make bread, then she lays herself down at the foot of her brother in law, who is drunk,..her brother in law then takes her as his wife...it was just really demeaning to women from start to finish. You can sure tell the Bible was written by men. I still believe it was inspired by God, but it was written by men and as such, is fallible.

 

[Againsheila]

Psalm 23 was the first hymn at both my mother's and my father's funeral.

My grandmother's favorite hymn was "Brighten the corner where you are." You don't find it very often, but I like it.

 

[chloe]

Sounds like it sheila, and what was the point of that story that women should be like ruth and just reduce themselves obediantly to a drunk loser. Yikes! He he I have a hard time understanding the bible anyway because of the wording & verbage I'll read something and think "I don't get it" haha. Thanks for the summary of Ruth.

 

[Againsheila]

Sounds like it sheila, and what was the point of that story that women should be like ruth and just reduce themselves obediantly to a drunk loser. Yikes! He he I have a hard time understanding the bible anyway because of the wording & verbage I'll read something and think "I don't get it" haha. Thanks for the summary of Ruth.

Keep in mind, I haven't read it for many years, you really should read it yourself before condemning it. Like I said, I liked the story as a kid, but hate it now as an adult. Guess my parents taught me to be too independent.

 

[chloe]

yeah but Im not able to comprehend it well on my own. Anyhow You ROCK SHEILA!

 

[glockmail]

23rd Psalm:

....

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
....

Bingo.

 

[Againsheila]

yeah but Im not able to comprehend it well on my own. Anyhow You ROCK SHEILA!

Thank you.

 

[Missourian]

Aside from the four Gospels, I very much enjoy the wisdom of the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is about the meaninglessness of a life pursuing fame, fortune, earthly immortality, and other earthly desires.

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”

says the Teacher.

“Utterly meaningless!

Everything is meaningless.”

3 What does man gain from all his labor

at which he toils under the sun?

4 Generations come and generations go,

but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises and the sun sets,

and hurries back to where it rises.

6 The wind blows to the south

and turns to the north;

round and round it goes,

ever returning on its course.

7 All streams flow into the sea,

yet the sea is never full.

To the place the streams come from,

there they return again.

8 All things are wearisome,

more than one can say.

The eye never has enough of seeing,

nor the ear its fill of hearing.

9 What has been will be again,

what has been done will be done again;

there is nothing new under the sun.





Ecclesiastes 1:2-9​

 

[midcan5]

"Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.' from Pascal and of course the golden rule. LOL

 

[chloe]

Thanks Missourian & Midcan5

Navajo Wind Prayer
by Wolfeyes



Oh, Great Spirit, Oh Grandfathers,
How lucky can one be to know such beauty?
One can search the world over and not find this much loveliness.
Her heart is pure, and radiates love and warmth.


Oh, Mother Earth, it is from your womb that she does come.
It has to be, for she reflects your beauty that I see all around me.



Oh, Navajo Wind, blow softly upon this desert rose.
Embrace her always with your warm gentle breezes.
Fill her heart with the pride and happiness.


From a proud and noble people that she does come.

Whisper soft reminders in her ear,
“Never forget…
Never forget.”



Oh, Father, the Navajo Sun,
Shine brightly down upon her path,
Allow her to see the beauty in herself as well as in others.
Protect her and keep her warm.


Hide her in your absence from the despairs of this life.
Allow her always to walk in beauty.
Oh, Woman who walks in beauty like the night,
I am a friend who is distant and silent.
I will care for you always