Heathen Quotes

• Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Ministry, Missionary

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• If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

  Saint Patrick

  May, Despise, Worthy

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

  David Alan Grier

  "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2009.

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• Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.' And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.

  Derek Landy

  Fighting, Gun, Moron

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.296, HarperCollins UK

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• Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Worship, Folly

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.108, University of Georgia Press

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• Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Snow, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.99, Taylor & Francis

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• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Faith, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.199, Library of Alexandria

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• So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

  Henry Vaughan

  Christmas, Spring, Ivy

  Henry Vaughan (1896). “Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist”

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• The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

  Lane Kirkland

  Advice, Way, Jungle

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• If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

  Roland Allen

  Preaching The Gospel, Soul, Thrones

  Roland Allen (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.37, The Lutterworth Press

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• Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

  Savitri Devi

  Christian, Religious, Dark

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Passion, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Heaven, Body

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Spiritual, Europe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

  David Bowie

  Piano, Mines

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• Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Pregnancy, Religion

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.245

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• However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

  David Bowie

  Running, Song, Strong

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interveiw, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Self, Inquiry, Patient

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Edward Stowe (1889). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled from Her Letters and Journals”

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• I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

  Greta Scacchi

  Marriage

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• Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

  Mark Twain

  Home, Civilization, Two

  Mark Twain (1970). “King Leopold's Soliloquy”, p.79, LeftWord Books

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• When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well, I have God, and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph. (William Carey, quoted in Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope, Banner of Truth 1971, p 140.)

  William Carey

  Strong, Overcoming, Triumph

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• Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

  Bret Harte

  Dark, Wish, Deceit

  'The Heathen Chinee: Plain Language from Truthful James' (1870)

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• I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

  Jeanette Winterson

  School, Mind, Literature

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Each Day, Christianity

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