The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart,… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan… — Isadora Duncan 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
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons. — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise… — Herman Melville 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
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
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
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer… — Fulgentius of Cartagena Copy Share Image
For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev."… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.' — Gerald Gardner Copy Share Image
If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose… — Ouida Copy Share Image
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial. — Dorothy Morrison Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
“The chief pagan god in the region that was to become Israel was El. El was male, patriarchal, a ruler.” — Richard Elliott Friedman Copy Share Image
“The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date… — Richard Luckhurst Copy Share Image
I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent — Arthur Rimbaud 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
