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Religious Quotes
I guess this is supposed to incorporate religion aswell... so id like to pop this in here...
My favorite religious quote is:
"Once there was an elder in the lower parts of Egypt, and he was a very famous hermit, living all alone in a desert place. Satan brought it about that a woman of easy virtue said to some young men: What will you give me, and i will go out and knock down that hermit of yours. So they agreed on a certain sum they would give her. And going out one evening she came to his cell pretending to have lost her way. She knocked at his door and he came out. Seeing her he was disturbed and said: How did you get out here? She pretended to weep and said: I have lost my way. So, being moved to pity, he let her in to the front room of his cell and for his part he went to the inner room and locked the door. But the unfortunate woman cried out: Father, the wild animals will eat me out here. Once again the elder was disturbed and thought of the Judgement of God and said: How did this dreadful thing happen to me? But, opening his door, he let her in. And the devil began to shoot flaming arrows into his heart. But he said within himself: The ways of the enemy are darkness and the son of god is light. So he lit a lantern. But the temtation continued and he said to himself: Well, lets see whether you will be able to bear the flames of hell. And he put his finger into the flame. But though the flame burned him he did not feel it, so strong was the fire of lust in him. And he went on like that until morning, burning all his fingers. The unfortunate woman, watching what he was doing was so struck with terror that she almost turned to stone. In the morning the two young men came to the hermit and said: Did a woman come here last night? Yes saiod the hermit, she is asleep over there. But they said: Father she is dead! The he, throwing back the cloak he had on, showed them his hands and said: LOok what she did to me, that child of hell! She has cost me all of my fingers. And having told them all that had taken place he ended with: it is written thou shalt not render evil for evil. So he said a prayer and she revived. She was converted and lived chastely for the rest of her life".
Taken fromt the writings of the Desert Fathers.
I like it cause its so ridiculous
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