Heathen

Famous quotes containing the word heathen:

“The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
And thy temple have they defiled.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Quaint, outlandish heathen gods
Black men fashion out of rods,”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)