Top 233 Pagan Quotes & Sayings

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

Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.

The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

It was deliciously pagan.

The Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

I'm pagan.

Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

Cremer's 'Nightshade' is a smart blend of romance, action, philosophy, and pagan witchcraft. And, yes, high-schoolers shape-shifting into wolves.

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?

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

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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

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.

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

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.

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.

The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there were statues of them everywhere, which is the equivalent of magazines, or whatever, today. And they were fallible, which is different from being mono-, you know, Jewish or Islam (where) you have the infallible, monotheistic God.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.

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.

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

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.

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

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

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.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

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

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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.

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

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.

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.