Pagan Quotations

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really,

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

We basically believe in nature more than anything else; that's why the new album, October Rust, has a strong pagan element to it.

'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.

There's a lot of fear. Sometimes that old collection of myths and stories about what a Pagan is just stands in the way.

For a Classicist, one must learn to ask the questions in the way that a pagan society did. I think it's very important and tough for many of us who grew up in a Judeo-Christian society.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

The use of incense was very common in olden times. It was employed for profane purposes as an antidote to the lassitude caused by very great heat, as perfumes are now used. Mention of its introduction into pagan worship is made by classical writers, but today it has brought people together.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

It was deliciously pagan.

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan....