1.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Gloria Steinem
2.
The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'
Gerald Gardner
3.
The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.
Margot Adler
4.
... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.
Sue Monk Kidd
5.
This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.
Doreen Valiente
6.
Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
Starhawk
8.
In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.
Dion Fortune
9.
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
Hildegard of Bingen
10.
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Sappho
11.
We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.
Scott Cunningham
12.
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
Virgil
14.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus
17.
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
18.
Magic is not always serious or solemn.
It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
Scott Cunningham
19.
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
Terence McKenna
20.
In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
Starhawk
21.
You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success,
belief is the most crucial.
Dorothy Morrison
22.
She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.
Starhawk
23.
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
Doreen Valiente
24.
For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
Doreen Valiente
26.
No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them.
There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!
Donald Michael Kraig
27.
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
Martin Buber
28.
I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron
29.
To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.
Starhawk
30.
Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
Richard Baxter
31.
We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.
Raven Grimassi
32.
The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.
Rachel Pollack
33.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid
34.
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
Will Durant
35.
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
Carol P. Christ
36.
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
37.
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville
38.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Augustus Hare
39.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster
41.
You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!
Lon Milo DuQuette
43.
The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.
Henrietta Szold
44.
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.
Albert Pike
45.
[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.
William James
47.
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.
Robert Green Ingersoll
48.
I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.
Rob Brezsny
49.
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.
Thomas Carlyle
50.
The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.
Rajneesh