Top 15 Heathen Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Heathen Quotes from famous people such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Whitefield, Henry Vaughan, Adoniram Judson, August Wilson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being

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
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
George Whitefield
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
Henry Vaughan
On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
Adoniram Judson
My first wife is a good woman, I still can’t say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
August Wilson
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
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David Bowie
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.
Francis Bacon
I didn’t mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive.
Hugh Masekela
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.
Tim Wise
I’m trying to champion the naturalist’s worldview and show it’s not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
Greg Graffin
Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?
Edwin Markham
I’m a heathen when it comes to marriage.
Greta Scacchi
I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
David Alan Grier