Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send… — Jules Ferry Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine. — William Carey Copy Share Image
The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore… — Sholem Asch Copy Share Image
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen,… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“ Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas!… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen.… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
