Heathen Quotes - Page 2

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

  Jeanette Winterson

  School, Mind, Literature

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Stupid, Reality, Government

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen.

  Hal Moore

  Prayer, Blow, Politics

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• ... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.

  Gertrude Bell

  Country, Moving, Breathing

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris

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• How long will the heathens rage?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Long, Rage

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen. I go to an atheist church. We have crippled guys who stand up and testify that they were crippled, and they still are.

  Paula Poundstone

  Atheist, Believe, Guy

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• I want to hear the chanting
  Around a heathen fire
  Of a strange black race.

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Race, Fire, Singing

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• Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Each Day, Christianity

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• To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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• The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

  Richard Whately

  Demand, Christianity, Characteristics

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.14

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• Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Worry, Characteristics

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Since Christ is the Word of God and the Truth of God, he may be received even by those who have not heard of his manifestation in the flesh... We have, therefore. the hope that even among the heathen there may be some, like Socrates, who, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit working through the truth of nature and conscience, have found the way of life and salvation.

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  May, Flesh, Way

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907). “Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace Book Designed for the Use of Theological Students”

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• Law is but a heathen word for power.

  Daniel Defoe

  Power, Law

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”, p.52

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• Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Skulls, Brain

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.173

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• E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Heart, Men

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ NARRATIVE – Memoirs of an American Slave, Freedom Fighter & Statesman: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & My Bondage and My Freedom”, p.98, e-artnow

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• We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

  Matthew Simpson

  Earth, Faces, Temples

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 34, 1895.

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• Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Slave Ships, Light, Sharks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.530, Library of America

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• How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Idols, Scripture

  Isaac Watts, John DOBELL (1805). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book fourth. Composed on divers subjects by I. Watts. Compiled and arranged by J. Dobell”, p.61

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• Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Men, Giving

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8014, Delphi Classics

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• But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Girl, Jesus, Children

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• We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.

  Pope Gregory I

  Humble, Men, Names

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• We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Real, Eye, Biblical

  G. C. Berkouwer (1962). “Man: The Image of God”, p.27, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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