Paganism Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great…
— Zitkala-Sa
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of…
— Albert Pike
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Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.
— Jane Ellen Harrison
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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official…
— Kenny Smith
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We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its…
— David Mamet
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
— E. M. Forster
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Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became…
— Timothy Keller
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The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
— Aleister Crowley
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
— Augustus Hare
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
— John Stuart Mill
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Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human…
— John Gresham Machen
Who Wrote These Paganism Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Paganism Quotes as follows: