Paganism Quotations

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.

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

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

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

Paganism as it's evolving today is really a living tradition.

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

Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

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

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.