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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. -- Ouida
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. -- John Lothrop Motley
Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.... -- William Wordsworth
Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn -- William Wordsworth
You're mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine. -- Abbi Glines
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. -- Israel Zangwill
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. -- D. H. Lawrence
He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life. -- Abbi Glines
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan. -- Timothy Leary
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. -- Lord Byron
The Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist -- Margot Adler
Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan. -- Emily Dickinson
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA). -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. -- C. S. Lewis
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan. -- Emily Dickinson
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination. -- Elinor Gadon
Well, let's see, I found out Pagan has low blood sugar and becomes a complete b--witch if she doesn't eat a candy bar during a stressful moment. -- Abbi Glines
The more I got to knew about Paganism the more Pagan I became, so to say, but I didn't really know enough until after the creation of Burzum. -- Varg Vikernes
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age. -- Starhawk
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn
It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons. -- Robert M. Price
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love. -- Victoria Woodhull
Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it. -- Varg Vikernes
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. -- Pope John Paul II
In our laws...by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we observe the obligation of our oaths. The Pagan world...are without the mighty influence of this principle which is proclaimed in the Christian system. -- Rufus King
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. -- Brendan Myers
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. -- Brendan Myers
The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed. -- Emily Dickinson
The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot. -- Zsuzsanna Budapest
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. -- Dion Fortune
Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance. -- Richard Baxter
This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent. -- Doreen Valiente
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. -- Henry David Thoreau
When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. -- Joseph R. Bartlett
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. -- Lindley Murray
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. -- Carl Olson
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. -- John McGahern
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. -- Dixie Lee Ray
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible. -- Carter Heyward
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. -- Zitkala-Sa
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. -- Steve Earle
In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times. -- Nostradamus
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. -- Julian Clary
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. -- G. Gordon Liddy
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. -- Richard Rohr
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. -- Gloria Steinem
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. -- John Burnside
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals. -- Dave Hickey
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. -- Reza Aslan
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. -- John Foxe
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. -- Terry Pratchett
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god. -- Ville Valo
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. -- Brendan Myers
With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset. -- Dennis Prager
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. -- Brendan Myers
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. -- Saint Basil
I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk. -- Lou Doillon
It was deliciously pagan. -- Gregory Maguire
Europe has resurrected its pagan gods. -- Subhash Kak
He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic! -- Sidney Howard
Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems. -- Max Anders
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. -- Douglas Reed
The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations. -- David Wilkerson
I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England. -- Damon Albarn
Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt. -- Harun Yahya
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. -- Albert Camus
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. -- Herman Melville
The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long. -- Steve Lawson
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it. -- Rajneesh
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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. -- Alan Watts
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great -- Dan Brown
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. -- Lewis H. Lapham
If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons. -- John of Damascus
behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car. -- Wallace Stevens
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. -- Carl Olson
She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. -- George Eliot
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. -- Bela Bartok
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed. -- Meir Soloveichik
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul. --
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. -- Ambrose Bierce
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. -- Dan Simmons
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. -- Samuel Bowers
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature. -- Camille Paglia
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence. -- Isadora Duncan
The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting -- Mark Twain
(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine! -- Jack London
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. -- Ezra Pound
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. -- Ramsay MacMullen
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. -- Alfred Rosenberg
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth. -- Robert Montgomery
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. -- Horace Mann
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. -- John Adams
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? -- Herman Melville
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. -- J. I. Packer
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. -- Anne Lamott
If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities. -- Max Anders
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art. -- Irving Stone
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps. -- David Lloyd George
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable. -- Baron de Montesquieu
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again. -- C.P. Cavafy
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter. -- Ronald Hutton
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, -- Amy Ray
The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature.? -- Camille Paglia
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey. -- Shane Claiborne
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint. -- Gary Sloan
I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it. -- Ian Astbury
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill. -- Edward Thomson
Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature. -- Camille Paglia
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. -- Ravi Zacharias
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly. -- Michelangelo

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