Paganism Quotes

The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

Never Again the Burning.

— Isaac Bonewits

“I pass and I stay, like the Universe.”

— Alberto Caeiro

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

— Doreen Valiente

If you have no doubt, you are not sane.

— Tage Danielsson

“I'm one of my sensations.”

— Alberto Caeiro

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

— Charles Churchill

“You say we worship the sun; so do you.”

— Tertullian

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

— Starhawk

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

— Starhawk

“I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear”

— Charleston Parker

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

— Richard Baxter

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

— Will Durant

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

— Augustus Hare

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

— Scott Cunningham

“Sacred space” is another way of saying “with intention.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”

— Alberto Caeiro

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities…

— Whitley Strieber

“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they…

— Álvaro de Campos

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

— Lon Milo DuQuette

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and…

— Dion Fortune

Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.

— Dorothy Morrison

“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are…

— Alberto Caeiro

“It is interesting to note that the overwhelming majority of all human beings who have ever lived were or currently are Pagans.”

— Mary Faulkner

“Pagan paths, of which there are many, more often than not, are based upon an acknowledgement of a Divine presence within nature,…

— Carole Carlton

“Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the “dualistic fiction,” which, as Nietzsche wrote…

— Alain de Benoist

The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside…

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer…

— Starhawk

“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun…

— Alberto Caeiro

“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know…

— Alberto Caeiro

“We too can begin a new life, one that brings satisfaction and enrichment, whether this is by singing, dancing, running through the…

— Carole Carlton

“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said…

— Anonymous

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued…

— Thomas Carlyle

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of…

— William Blackstone

“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo…

— James Lovegrove

“I nodded, appreciating the wisdom of her words.‘Yellow is the colour of early spring,’ she said, ‘just look at your garden!’ She…

— Carole Carlton

“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Saturday morning brought an Imbolc gift of thick fog, as our select company of three set off onto the rain-sodden moor. ‘Here…

— Carole Carlton

“It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It…

— Remy de Gourmont

“One day when God fell asleep And the Holy Ghost went off flying, He got into a box of miracles and stole…

— Alberto Caeiro