Paganism Quotes - Page 2

• Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
  Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Secret, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Reality, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Magic, Deities

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• What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Names, Legacy, Fame

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• The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Morning, Sunday

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• All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

  Doreen Valiente

  Wiccan, Goddess, Pleasure

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• The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.

  David Hume

  Country, Hero, Mean

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1245, Delphi Classics

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• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

  Ouida

  Christian, Gay, Religion

  "Views and Opinions".

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• I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Political, Islam

  "The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville; edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, p. 229, 2002.

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• I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, World, Study

  "The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville; edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, p. 229, 2002.

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• We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.

  Raven Grimassi

  Dream, Giving, Possibility

  Interview with Michele Burke, paganpages.org. July 1, 2009.

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• We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

  Scott Cunningham

  Deities, Asking For Forgiveness, Planets

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• Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

  Laurie Cabot

  Inspirational, Life, Earth

  Laurie Cabot (2013). “Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment”, p.20, Delta

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• The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

  Rachel Pollack

  Two, Bird, Way

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• I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Deny, Pagan Gods

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• Fame is nothing but an empty name.

  Charles Churchill

  Names, Fame, Empty

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• ... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mean, Female, Goddess

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• The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

  Margot Adler

  Firsts, Wiccan, Witch

  Margot Adler (1997). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today”, Penguin Group USA

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• To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.

  Starhawk

  Names, Males, Cosmos

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• Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

  Will Durant

  Christianity, Adopted

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• Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Dream, Believe

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• In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

  Starhawk

  Witchcraft

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Harper Collins

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