Pagan Quotes - Page 10

• England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

  Karl Marx

  Idols, Skulls, Progress

  "The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.

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• Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

  Graham Harvey

  Numbers, Labels, Use

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• My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Football, War

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Christmas, Angel, Thoughtful

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• From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

  Erica Jong

  Country, Falling In Love, Crazy

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• We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

  Irving Stone

  Religious, Art, Believe

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

  Tertullian

  Military, Sacrifice, Punishment

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• It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Offering, Ornaments, Use

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

  Mary Stewart

  Fear, Laughter, Anger

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• It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Reading, Writing

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• All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

  John Adams

  Christian, Men, Dignity

  John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.277

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• The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

  James T. Shotwell

  Spiritual, Sheep, Rocks

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• The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Needs, World, Belief

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

  Ouida

  Men, Religion, Earth

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• The solitary monk who shook the world
  From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
  Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
  In peals of truth.

  Robert Montgomery

  Challenges, Religion, Lips

  Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

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• Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.

  Varg Vikernes

  Silly, Knowing, Paganism

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6

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• In our laws...by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we observe the obligation of our oaths. The Pagan world...are without the mighty influence of this principle which is proclaimed in the Christian system.

  Rufus King

  Christian, Law, Principles

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• behold
  The approach of him whom none believes,
  Whom all believe that all believe,
  A pagan in a varnished car.

  Wallace Stevens

  Believe, Car, Approach

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.170, Vintage

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• The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Religious, Fashion

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the reasons American kids don't test as well in science as kids in other parts of the world.

  Kent Hovind

  Teaching, Kids, Space

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• Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Mean, Intelligent, America

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• The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Heart, Hands, Might

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• If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.

  Max Anders

  Live Life, Israel, Different

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• God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Tools, World

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