Quotes About Supernatural

The most insistently reductive, device-like models of living creatures, models that left their unmistakable mark on Darwinism,relied upon a theology, a supernatural power to provide meaning and purpose.

I have been asked to take up a ghost, Carlyle began to explain. Then I don't believe in it, declared Carrados. Why not? Because it is a pushful, notoriety-loving ghost, or it would not have gone so far. Probably it wants to get into The Daily Mail.

He who aspires to dine with the vampire must bring his own meat.

what had appeared accidental to me in the past, now often seemed to bear the imprint of supernatural intent. Once you see it you can't unsee it: the supernatural is not supernatural; the ordinary world is suffused with the miraculous. Here

Only Coleridge was philosophically brilliant enough to understand that their declarations about nature—its immortality, its beauty and truth—needed to rest upon the supernatural, "a kind of common sensorium"—as he called Jesus Christ—"the total Idea that modifies all thoughts.

Meaning is above nature—it is supernatural—because it is the idea that nature expresses.

Like god, for example. Believing in a god isn't necessarily the same as believing in a god that intervenes in daily life. That's where most religions defer. They all believe in some kind of supernatural being, but they can't agree in what he does for a living. Does he kill children with typhoid?

Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.

There are things in this world most of us never see," I find myself saying. "We've trained ourselves not to see them, or try to pretend we didn't if we do. But there's a reason why, no matter how sophisticated or primitive, every religion has demons.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? . . . Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. —Bram Stoker, Dracula

We owe to the Jews,' wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, 'a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together.

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.

God alone knew what they could have done if the buttons had not been noticed before they reached France!

Mamma, are they demons? Is it the Wild Hunt? Phantoms from hell? Mamma, mamma! Quiet, quiet, children. They are not demons, not devils . . . Worse than that. They are people.

There are things in heaven and earth that even philosophers have never dreamed about.

And a day will come, perhaps, when we shall stop believing at all that something is lurking in the darkness. We shall laugh at such fears. Call them childish. Be ashamed of them! But darkness will always, always exist. And there will always be Evil in the darkness, always be fangs and claws, death and blood in the darkness. And witchers will always be needed.

Please. I'd prefer to be thought of as a supernatural creature armed with a supernatural weapon. They hire me to be that and pay me to be that. Normality, meanwhile, is the same as banality, and banality is cheap. So I ask you to keep your trap shut. Promise?" "Have it your way. I promise.

Begone from this body!' bellowed Scharley. 'You catamite fucked in the arse!

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

prayer takes us well beyond human possibilities.

They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on.

eldritch ways

Erl-King lives

Bu tatl? seste sanki tekinsiz olan bir ÅŸey varm??, ya bu sesin sahibi büyücüymüÅŸ ya da bir büyünün etkisindeymiÅŸ gibi geldi odadakilere. Üçü de tüylerinin diken diken olduÄŸunu hissettiler. [sf 184]