Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 2:1.

Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 2:7^9.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 46:9^10.

And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

He is not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article.Dirty, ugly, disagreeableto all the senses, in body a common creature of the common streets, only in soul a Heathen. Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him: native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Of  Jo. Bleak House, ch.47.

Which I wish to remarkö And my language is plainö That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.

-Harte, (Francis) Bret
  'Plain Language from Truthful James', stanza1. The poem became popularly known as'That Heathen Chinee'.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The'Eathen'.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army isthe non-commissioned man!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The'Eathen'.

Avery heathen in the carnal part, Yet still a sad, good Christian at her heart.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.67^8.

To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.465^70.