The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history… — Will Durant 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
behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car. — Wallace Stevens 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
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or dammed a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“But hippies always forget that old Gaea can be one heartless bitch. Spend a little time wandering lost in the woods as… — Jenifer Mohammed Copy Share Image
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“The months passed away. Slowly a great fear came over Viola, a fear that would hardly ever leave her. For every month… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
“... that eternally restless, eternally unquenched desire for naked paganism, that love that is the supreme joy, that is divine serenity itself-… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“It is a pagan practice to speak in tongues. God's people must avoid confusion and be clear in their messages, including their… — Mwanandeke Kindembo 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
“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
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
The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
