- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [scanning the stone tablet found at B'hala] I had a pretty good idea what this was the minute I laid eyes on it... That confirms it: it's a slab of stone with some writing on it!
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [trying to translate a Bajoran inscription] The computer has given me two possibilities.
- Captain Sisko: They are?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: During the Reckoning, the Bajorans will either "suffer horribly" or "eat fruit".
- Captain Sisko: "Eat fruit?"
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Given the tone of the rest of the inscriptions, I would bet on horrible suffering.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Just do me one favor - if you talk to the Prophets again, ask for a dictionary... please.
- Major Kira: You defied the will of the Prophets, and you did it because you couldn't stand the fact that a Human, an infidel, had a stronger faith than you. The Emissary was willing to sacrifice his own son to serve the Prophets.
- Kai Winn: My faith is as pure as the Emissary's.
- Major Kira: I think you're confusing faith with ambition.
- Major Kira: [possessed by a Prophet] The Reckoning. It is time.
- Captain Sisko: The Reckoning - what is it?
- Major Kira: The end, or the beginning.
- Captain Sisko: [to Jake] You know, I didn't ask to be the Emissary. But for better or worse, I guess, that's what I am - except for being your dad.
- Major Kira: [to Sisko] The Kai has always been the spiritual leader of Bajor. But Winn has to share that role with you. And to make matters worse - you're an outsider, a non-Bajoran. That's something she can never forgive you for.
- Captain Sisko: I just had this uncontrollable urge to smash the tablet.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Oh, I get those urges all the time. Of course, I never act on them.
- Doctor Bashir: Who knows? The rest of the tablet probably says "Go to Quark's. It's happy hour."
- Quark: I like the way you think, Doctor.
- Major Kira: "Will the Romulans leave Benzar?" You love to bring up the worst case scenario in these meetings, don't you?
- Odo: Somebody has to. Besides, everyone expects me to be dour and suspicious; I don't want to disappoint them.
- Major Kira: If only they knew the real you.
- Odo: That is the real me - at least as far as everyone else is concerned.
- Quark: From now on, every hour is happy hour - at least until business picks up. Eat, drink and be merry.
- Doctor Bashir: For tomorrow, we die.
- Captain Sisko: She may be the spiritual leader of millions of Bajorans, but she is not an easy woman to like.
- Captain Sisko: [to Winn] You and I haven't always seen things eye to eye. But we have one thing in common: we both believe that the Prophets have a plan for Bajor. Sometimes, it's not easy to see the path they've laid out for us. Right now, I don't know what they want from me; but I'm willing to take a leap of faith and trust that they're guiding me, and I'm asking you to take that leap with me.
- Captain Sisko: I want to explain what happened. But I'm not sure that I can.
- Jake Sisko: You don't have to explain. When the Pah-wraith was inside me, I could feel its hatred. And I knew that no matter what, it couldn't be allowed to win - even if it meant I had to die. You did the right thing.
- [last lines]
- Major Kira: Because of your interference, the Reckoning was stopped. The evil still exists. And I'm not sure if even the Prophets know what that will mean for Bajor.
- Captain Sisko: [reading the Bajoran prophecy] "The time of Reckoning is at hand. The Prophets will weep. Their sorrow will consume... the Gateway to the Temple."
- Major Kira: [about faith] I just don't know how people make it through the day without it.
- Odo: We manage. Besides, I do have faith in some things.
- Major Kira: Hmm. Such as?
- Odo: You.
- Major Kira: [smiles] I'll try not to disappoint you.
- Major Kira: [possessed by a Prophet] Kosst Amojan has chosen its vessel.
- Jake Sisko: [possessed by a Pah-wraith] Let it begin.