Top 1200 Pagan Gods Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

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

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.