Heathen Quotations

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

Nature is mixture of opposites ..It is beautiful and dangerous, constant and inconstant, vulnerable and strong ..simply it is an image of heathen god.

How long will the heathens rage?

We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilized life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to celebrate the worship of idol gods.

The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Each brings his prejudices to the table. At first, she thinks he's a heathen and a barbarian. Then, he reminds her that her native England has invaded other countries, and the English believe their way is the only way. As they grow to understand each other, it becomes a love story.

What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? / I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

Any nation is heathen that ain't strong enough to punch you in the jaw.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.