Heathen Quotes - Page 4

• Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

  John Angell James

  Mean, Fate, Errors

  John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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• Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Philosopher, Common, Idolatry

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• In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

  Isaac Watts

  Bible, Jobs, Rome

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• Before
  We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
  Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
  But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
  Enter their profane temples; and for me
  To hope my passage to eternity
  Can be made easy, till I have shook off
  The burthen of my sins in free confession,
  Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
  Is against reason.

  Philip Massinger

  Hands, Feet, Sorrow

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.262

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• Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces, like a potters vessel. Be wise now therefore, ye kings. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his wrath be kindled but a little.

  Alexander Anderson

  Wise, Kings, Kissing

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• The heathen in his blindness
  Bows down to wood and stone.

  Reginald Heber

  Stones, Woods, Bows

  'From Greenland's icy mountains' (1821 hymn). Heber later altered 'Ceylon's isle' to 'Java's isle'.

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• Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Brother, Lying

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• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, Sleep, Men

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• A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Fate, Missions, Conferences

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• But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

  John Calvin

  Race, Conviction, Nations

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.

  David Hume

  Race, Principles, World

  David Hume (2016). “The Natural History of Religion: Revision of Great Book”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Numbers, Hands

  Isaac Newton “Observations”, Lulu.com

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• And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Empires, Dominion

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.566, Broadview Press

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• I'm sure Democrats are hoping that Donald Trump will make a move soon to rescind and repeal Obama's orders. And then Barack Obama will call the media and he'll go on TV and he'll immediately accuse Trump of poisoning the planet, not caring about poisoning the water and all this other stuff. I know how this stuff works, and more of you each and every day who listen here religiously know as well as I what Obama is setting up here. It is to portray Trump as some selfish heathen who only cares about his own profit.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Selfish, Moving, Caring

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.

  Robert Graves

  Boys, Blood, Hands

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Graves, Constructs, Tombs

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Trouble, Christ

  "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Chapter XXXVI: The Apple of Discord, 1853.

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• Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

  Richard Whately

  Reality, Shadow, Substance

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.14

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• I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

  Greg Graffin

  Religious, People, Champion

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• Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Christian, Eye, Religion

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• but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

  Laird Barron

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His grace by preserving their souls in the midst of the most unpromising environments. His saints are found in very unlikely places.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sight, People, Grace

  Arthur W. Pink (2016). “The Life of Elijah”, p.127, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Liberty, May, Causes

  "The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868" by Thaddeus Stevens, University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1997.

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• Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, War, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.378

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