Quotes About Pagan Gods

#1. In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.

Lewis Spence

#2. I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on?

Bernard Cornwell

#3. The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.

Richard Luckhurst

#4. Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Wole Soyinka

#5. I stood there feeling nowhere.

Richard Matheson

#6. Abject fear of pagan gods is little different from abject worship of them.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#7. Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

Subhash Kak

#8. By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#9. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

#10. No intelligent person, the sophisticated pagan might have explained, actually worshiped images of the gods, or worshiped living emperors; instead, the gods' images - and the images of the emperors themselves - provided an accessible focus for revering the cosmic forces they represented.

Elaine Pagels

#11. Do you think it's right for Christians to use the names of pagan gods for the days of the week?

Garrison Keillor

#12. The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

Philip James Bailey

#13. You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma.
"I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you."
"It makes you a pagan."
"It makes you a man of limited vision," said Argyle.

Mike Resnick

#14. When I look at the multitude of the gods of the past held in esteem by great civilisations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder wether tomorrow the gods we hold in high esteem won't suffer the same fate.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#15. Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones, wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to see how the physicist's swarming clouds of particles could give rise to the hard-edged world of everyday sight and touch.

James Gleick

#16. Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

John C. Calhoun

#17. We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

Annie Dillard

#18. My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#19. Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.

Thomm Quackenbush

#20. If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent Van Gogh