Banner Quote by Douglas Reed Download Open image “It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.” — Douglas Reed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banner Christian Like Looked Pagan Planted
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
“The famous field altar came from the Jewish firm of Moritz Mahler in Vienna, which manufactured all kinds of accessories for mass as well as religious objects like rosaries and images of saints. The altar was made up of three parts, lberally provided with sham gilt like the whole glory of the Holy Church. It was not possible without considerable… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share
“For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic… — nwaocha ogechukwu Copy Share Image
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“As Tertullian put it, “We make the sign of the cross on our foreheads at every turn, at our going in or coming out… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“For one great example, according to the story, the Christmas wreath custom did not come from paganism, but from a remarkable defeat of paganism.… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Transmogrification,” Langdon said. “The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual—the miter, the altar, the doxology, and… — Dan Brown Copy Share
Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the… — Douglas Reed Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image