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Quotes About Supernatural

it is really unbelievably difficult to get accurate information about a haunted house;
~ Shirley Jackson
the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
~ Shirley Jackson
She probably watches every move we make, anyway; it's probably part of what she agreed to." "Agreed to with whom, I wonder? Count Dracula?" "You think he lives in Hill House?" "I think he spends all his week ends here; I swear I saw bats in the woodwork
~ Shirley Jackson
She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
~ Shirley Jackson
She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hill House went dancing,' Theodora said, 'taking us along a mad midnight fling. At least I think it was dancing; it might have been turning somersaults.
~ Shirley Jackson
I don't stay after I set out dinner," Mrs. Dudley went on. "Not after it begins to get dark. I leave before dark comes.
~ Shirley Jackson
Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience.
~ Shirley Jackson
It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.
~ Shirley Jackson
Anything you raise by the way of spirits you have to put back yourself.
~ Shirley Jackson
No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself.
~ Shirley Jackson
Mrs. Dudley," the doctor said, putting down his fork, "an admirable soufflé.
~ Shirley Jackson
all the while one simple supernatural prescription waited: "Come to me.
~ Sibella Giorello
Dupa cum se stie, in domeniul ocultismului este valabil principiul: cazurile negative nu dovedesc nimic.
~ Sigmund Freud
The supernatural greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
~ Simone Weil
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
~ Simone Weil
Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.
~ Simone Weil
Man only escape from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.
~ Simone Weil
In every kind of human occupation there is always some regard for the beauty of the world seen in more or less distorted or soiled images. As a consequence there is not any department of human life which is purely natural. The supernatural is secretly present throughout. Under a thousand different forms, grace and mortal sin are everywhere.
~ Simone Weil
The mysteries of the faith are not an object for the intelligence as the faculty which permits affirmation or denial. They are not of the order of the truth, but above it. The only part of the human soul capable of real contact with them is the faculty of supernatural love. Therefore, it alone is capable of adherence to them.
~ Simone Weil
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. Exactly, in every respect, including the slightest details of accent and attitude, for a detail may be enough to place the weaker party in the condition of matter, which on this occasion naturally belongs to him, just as the slightest shock causes water that has remained liquid below freezing point to solidify.
~ Simone Weil
In undiluted monergism, He called the galaxies into being, and He gives life to the dead in the same way
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
But the truth is that while they may be more dramatic, ours are no less supernatural, for the same Lord sovereignly designed the events that also led us to faith. It was he who placed us in a Christian family, or brought us into contact with a Christian, or stirred up in us an unaccountable desire to read
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
What's this? Dumbledore?
~ Sophie Kinsella