Pagan Quotes - Page 8

• The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

  Steve Lawson

  Long, Church, Free Will

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• A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

  Ezra Pound

  New York, Animal, Rome

  "Patria Mia".

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• I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Tragedy, Might

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.224, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

  Dave Hickey

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rome

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• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Art, Epic

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Opposites, Views

  "The Sickness unto Death". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Part Two: Despair Is Sin, pp. 114 - 115, 1849.

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• Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

  Harun Yahya

  Egypt, Roots, Ancient

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• Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

  Subhash Kak

  Europe, Pagan Gods

  "The Loom of Time: On the Recursive Nature of Reality". Book by Subhash Kak, 2016.

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• As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

  Edward Thomson

  Bible, Philosophy, Zion

  Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35

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• Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Christian, Long, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Home, Giving

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft”, p.211, OUP Oxford

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• I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Knowing, Not Knowing, Silent

  Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse (2011). “A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Kitchen, Together

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.41, Anchor

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• Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.

  Daniel Handler

  Tree, Together, Different

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• Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  World, Pale, Feds

  'Hymn to Proserpine'.

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• I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev." Barabas sighed dramatically. "Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the top, except this time pretend you are an alpha." "I don't need a lecture. I just need the book." "Much better. Little more growl in the voice?" "Barabas!" "And we're there. Congratulations!

  Ilona Andrews

  Congratulations, Book, Voice

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• Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.

  Dennis McKinsey

  Jesus, Real, Believe

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• No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

  Richard Hakluyt

  History, Ignorant, Divinity

  Richard Hakluyt (1935). “The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts”

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• The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Heart, Grieving

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• Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spiritual, Cfs

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• I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

  Emily Dickinson

  Prayer, Fall, Snow

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• Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

  Emily Dickinson

  Feet, Broken, Atheism

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