Pagan Quotes

137 Pagan quotes by 118 unique authors

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old… — Bela Bartok
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan. — Timothy Leary
The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long. — Steve Lawson
It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South,… — Desmond Tutu
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome. — Will Durant
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their… — Benjamin Franklin
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. — Ezra Pound
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual… — Jerzy Kosinski
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan… — John McGahern
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia
Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA). — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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… — Symeon the New Theologian
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. — Richard Rohr
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us… — Carter Heyward
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… — Dave Hickey
It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St.… — Pope Francis
If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not… — Doris Janzen Longacre
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know… — Blaise Pascal
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized… — Stephen Bayley
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so… — Andrew Greeley

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