The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals.… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ...… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans,… — Pope Eugene IV Copy Share Image
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“I promise you Pagan that not one of those things is a match for me. So stop worrying. I’m Death, baby. Remember… — Abby Glines Copy Share Image
“I feel the nights stretching away thousands long behind the days till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor.” — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
“It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching… — Elinor Gadon Copy Share Image
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
“Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The trees were tinted exquisitely to an uncertain glory as the great red sinking sun flashed its rays on their crystal mantle.… — H.R. Wakefield Copy Share Image
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
