Pagan famous quotes

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.
-- Adrian Goldsworthy

#Christian #Atheist #Pagan

The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Jesus #Jerusalem #Pagan

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#World #Pagan #Feds

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really,
-- Amy Ray

#Jesus #Kind #Pagan

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Knowing #Not Knowing #Pagan

He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
-- C.P. Cavafy

#Pagan #Lord #Poor

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
-- Carl E. Olson

#Study #Ancient #Pagan

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Agnostic #Pagan #Stakes

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.
-- Dion Fortune

#Atheism #Pagan #Goddess

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.
-- Doreen Valiente

#Home #Pagan #Planets

I want to be where there are out and out pagans.
-- Francis Xavier

#Missionary #Want #Pagan

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
-- Georges Rouault

#Eye #Pagan

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.
-- John of Damascus

#Icons #Church #Pagan

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.
-- Joseph R. Bartlett

#Christian #Race #Pagan

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
-- Ouida

#Christian #Gay #Pagan

Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
-- Paul the Apostle

#Passion #Pagan #Knowing God

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.
-- Scott Cunningham

#Deities #Pagan #Asking For Forgiveness

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
-- Steve Earle

#Funeral #Doubt #Pagan

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.
-- Steve Lawson

#Long #Church #Pagan

I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.
-- Steven Van Zandt

#Christian #Buddhist #Pagan

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.
-- Subhash Kak

#Europe #Pagan #Pagan Gods

behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
-- Wallace Stevens

#Believe #Car #Pagan

The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
-- Zsuzsanna Budapest

#Magic #Alive #Pagan

I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.
-- Ian Astbury

#Christian #Pagan #Caught