Quotes About Heathen

Trust in nothing but in Providence and your own efforts. Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

The good parson again blessed her, and went away. She took leave of him with tears in her eyes, entreating him often to visit her in that heathen land of the Amorite, the Hittite, and the Girgashite: to which he assented, on many solemn and qualifying conditions—and then the comely bride retired to her chamber to pray.

Avert they gaze, heathen scum. The likes of us do not deserve to gaze upon such beauty! Tis better to grind our eyes into the dirt!

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.

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.

I wasn't drunk," Alynwick grumbled. "I tchin' for a fight, aye, but no' drunk." "Careful," Black said with some amusement, "your cultured English accent is giving way to your heathen Highland one.

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

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.

That's you Christians, all over!—you'll get up a society, and get some poor missionary to spend all his days among just such heathen. But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion on yourselves! No; when it comes to that, they are dirty and disagreeable, and it's too much care, and so on.

The mission was founded in 1776 to proselytize the Indians, 5000 of whom succumbed to a measles epidemic brought by the same people who came to save them from their heathen ways.

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

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.

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

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.

Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon their own character.

nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.

nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of this command by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.

bleibt nur in eurem nordischen Nebel und christlichem Weihrauch; laßt uns Heiden unter dem Schutt, unter der Lava ruhen, grabt uns nicht aus, für euch wurde Pompeji, für euch wurden unsere Villen, unsere Bäder, unsere Tempel nicht gebaut. Ihr braucht keine Götter! Uns friert in eurer Welt!

The unspeakable rituals of the heathen, who might think nothing of sacrificing a horse and then making sport with its phallus, were echoed in grim tales of Christian women transforming themselves into equine form, and revelling in the bestial.

These Danes have always been a very froward people. Do you know, Jack, what they did at Clonmacnois? They burnt it, the thieves, and their queen sat on the high altar mother-naked, uttering oracles in a heathen frenzy. Ota was the strumpet's name. It is all of a piece: look at Hamlet's mother. I only wonder her behaviour caused any comment.

What do you know of a place called 'the colonies'?" "Oh, you'd not be wantin' to be goin' there, sir! 'Tis a heathen place, full up wit' barbarians. I 'ear men there actually fight fer what they believe in…

Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen!—We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gentle hand out of the busy struggle of Vanity Fair.

When they came to shore they would sweep together all the horses of the neighbourhood and move themselves and their plunder on horseback across the land. It was with no intention of fighting as cavalry that they collected the horses, but only for swift marching. The first mention of this practice in England comes in the year 866, when "a great heathen army came to the land of the East Angles, and there was the army a-horse".