Quotes of Heathen - somelinesforyou

“ Don't be an agnostic — be something. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. ”

- Carl Jung

“ You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. ”

- Studs Terkel

“ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. ”

- Bible

“ Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. ”

- Hu Shih

“ All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“ True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. ”

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

“ Agnostics are just atheists without balls. ”

- Stephen Colbert

“ The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. ”

- William Jennings Bryan

“ The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god. ”

- Marilyn Manson

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin
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