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1 " I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? "
― Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Tomorrow's Eve
2 " For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world, this challenge is not even always a metaphor. Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and scales, fangs and horns and wings and fins and claws. They are in the lands we strip for veins of precious ore. They are in the waters we poison. "
― Alison Leigh Lilly
3 " For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and scales, fangs and horns and wings and fins and claws. They are in the lands we strip for veins of precious ore. They are in the waters we poison. - Alison Leigh Lilly, " Anatomy of a God "
4 " We can name this river, here and now—but we cannot name the water itself. We can name our gods and we can name ourselves, but we cannot name the essence of sacred identity that flows through both, that connects us and sanctifies us." - Alison Leigh Lilly, " Naming the Water: Human and Deity Identity from an Earth-Centered Perspective "
5 " 'Are our gods better than Olaf's god?' Alfdis laughed. 'That's a silly question. Gods are gods. Our gods have been with us since the beginning of the world. We sacrifice to them, and they aid us when they see fit. Other people have their own gods and their own ways of dealing with them. That's their concern.' "
6 " In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them. "
― John Green
