Quotes About Paganism And Christianity

#1. Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.

Billy Graham

#2. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.

Betsy Cornwell

#3. Everything is temporary. There is nothing in the world that is not perishable. Therefore, treasure and honor all that you have in this moment, for in the next, it may be gone.

Karlyle Tomms

#4. The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

#5. Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

Will Durant

#6. Maybe we were ghosts of a sort, spirits from the world that had died when the volcano erupted.

Mike Mullin

#7. The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...

Henrietta Szold

#8. The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.

William L. Shirer

#9. It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#10. Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth!

Charleston Parker

#11. In what did the emancipating message of Christianity consist but in the announcement that God recognizes those weak and tender impulses which paganism had so rudely overlooked?

William James

#12. Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

Andy Stanley

#13. Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don't you think?

Cliff James

#14. In that way, we Jews can see Christianity as God's chosen instrument for redeeming the world from paganism, and Christians can recognize their obligation to preach the message of Christianity to the world, but not to the Jewish people, who had that message before they did.

Harold S. Kushner

#15. Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

Garth Stein

#16. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

#17. Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Tobsha Learner

#18. Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of

G.K. Chesterton

#19. If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

Iyanla Vanzant

#20. I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#21. Some information I just keep to myself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#22. I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

Marianne Faithfull

#23. I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

Chaim Potok

#24. Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity.

James Aitken Wylie

#25. Bringing the knife into view, Zeke beamed. "You don't know what hurt is; but, you will.

Wodke Hawkinson

#26. Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

David Hare

#27. Nature is also God's way of communicating with us. Jesus himself used nature to teach us about God. He used birds and flowers, the weather, precious stones ... Looking at nature, we can come to understand God himself.

Adelina St. Clair