“ Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all the… Robert G. Ingersoll
“ Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. Herman Melville
“ Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and… H.P. Lovecraft
“ Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air. Cristen Rodgers
“ I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask m… Georges Bizet
“ The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face. Marion Zimmer Bradley
“ I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgot… Markham Shaw Pyle
“ I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their… Marion Zimmer Bradley
“ The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation. Richard Luckhurst
“ It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. (The Troll) T.H. White
“ There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. George Gordon Byron
“ One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience. Royston Lambert
“ It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the… Royston Lambert
“ Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without brea… Thomm Quackenbush
