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Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft QUOTES

1 " I believe in religion, I believe in religious expression, and I believe that all gods are one God. I do not lie when I pray in the words of another religion, because I believe. --Oisce "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

2 " Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now. --Paul Turnbull "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

3 " We all have different beliefs, ways of worshipping, and ideas about religion. I believe it is a very personal subject, and so everyone should respect each other's beliefs. I simply live my life, and if someone is uncomfortable with who I am or what I believe in, then I have found that I am better off not having them in my life. --Kristen Adams "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

4 " I have learned a great deal from other Witches, Wiccans, Odinists, Voodoo and Hoodou practitioners, Druids and many others who consider themselves Pagan. The one common thread is that every single person has been nonjudgmental. Isn't this what it's all about, acceptance? Are we not here to design our own spiritual path? --Icinia "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

5 " Throughout the years, I have found people are confused about my love for both Christianity and Paganism. I tell them what was revealed to me while I lay sleeping in the hospital. The All, whether perceived as a God, or a Goddess, or as one being, or even as an energy field, cares only about one thing: Love. Absolute and unconditional love. --High Priestess Enoch "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

6 " This is an organic religion. A religion of the people from heart to heart; a faith that finds the presence of the Divine within life, and nature, and ourselves. We don't have teachers and books because we are our own teachers, and our book is the sacred book of the Earth. We believe that we can connect with the God and Goddess and hear their voices, receive their inspiration directly and take responsibility for our own actions, without the intermediary of a pope or rabbi. We have a loose set of beliefs and morals and a ritual structure that is common to all Wiccans, but there is room for creativity and deep mystical experiences. This is a faith with roots as old as the earth. --Meri Fowler "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

7 " I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others. --Gregory Michael Brewer "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

8 " Sometimes we forget to, or feel guilty when, we take time to nourish our own souls. It is not selfish to spiritually fill ourselves because we need that time to find the delicate balance in our lives. Only then can we truly be of service to others. --Debra Siegrist "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

9 " We don't get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of who we are. --Erynn Rowan Laurie "

― Arin Murphy-Hiscock , Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft