Quotes About Supernatural

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.

The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural. ...Out of all bodies together we could not succeed in creating one little thought. It is impossible, and of a different order. Out of all bodies and minds we could not extract one impulse of true charity. It is impossible, and of a different, supernatural, order.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws, why we know not. He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window.

And then as we looked the white figure moved forwards again. It was now near enough for us to see clearly, and the moonlight still held. My own heart grew cold as ice, and I could hear the gasp of Arthur, as we recognized the features of Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?

For the dead travel fast.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

More than one soldier wondered if, at last, the French had found a magician of their own; the French infantrymen appeared much taller than ordinary men and the light in their eyes as they drew closer burnt with an almost supernatural fury. But this was only the magic of Napoleon Buonaparte, who knew better than any one how to dress his soldiers so they would terrify the enemy, and how to deploy them so that any onlooker would think them indestructible.

Strange finished: "People have such odd notions about magicians. They wanted me to tell them about vampyres.

Oh, quite!" agreed Byron. "I was with him again a few hours ago and could not get him to talk of any thing but his dead wife and how she is not really dead, but merely enchanted. And now he shrouds himself in Darkness and works Black Magic! There is something rather admirable in all this, do you not agree?

La magia no es respetable, caballero. No es... —buscó la palabra— seria. El gobierno no puede involucrarse en esas cosas.

Both had indulged in, if not Black Magic, then certainly magic of a darker hue than seemed desirable or legitimate.

The corporeal vampire, if he existed, would be by definition the greatest of all predators, living as he would off the top of the food chain.

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

If there were angels, would they be the good guys or the bad?" Lindsay

To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

A curse is a power Not subject to reason Each curse has its course Its own way of expiation Follow follow

I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.