"Misbeliever" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The transition of the word miscreant from its original meaning of misbeliever (mecroyant, miscredente), to its modern use as a mark of opprobrium, is a similar instance. This change is a proof of the instinctive association of the dependence of right conduct on right belief. It is about the time ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... 'what I have said before, that yonder bishop, however christianized his head may be is a misbeliever in his heart. He is ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usury; Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe; You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me and you say: Shylock, we would ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... substitute for its sorceries. He speaks amid the incantations of Balaam, raises Samuel's spirit in the witch's cavern, prophesies of the Messias by the tongue of the Sibyl, forces Python to recognize His ministers, and baptizes by the hand of the misbeliever. He is with the heathen dramatist in his denunciations of injustice and tyranny, and his auguries of divine vengeance upon crime. Even on the unseemly legends of a popular mythology He casts His shadow, and is dimly ...
— The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine - Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin • John Henry Newman
... misbeliever! accursed Ragnar!" began the irate monk, when an arrow, perhaps only meant to frighten him (for they could hardly have missed so fair a ...
— Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake |
