Quotes and Sayings about Supernatural
"I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: God, Religion, Supernatural)
"I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Time, Events, Miracles, Supernatural)
"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."
- Amelia Barr
(Related: Life, May, Scientists, Supernatural)
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Irony, Literary)
"This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Time, People, Beginning, Creation, Fact, Past, Supernatural, Universe)
"It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Science, Supernatural)
"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
- John Berger
(Related: Thought, Being, Compassion, Necessity, Order, Supernatural, World)
"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it."
- Georges Bernanos
(Related: Faith, Knowledge, Obvious, Punishment, Purity, Supernatural)
"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."
- Georges Bizet
(Related: Adultery, Crime, Evil, Fanaticism, Supernatural, Writing)
"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
- William Peter Blatty
(Related: Horror, Police, Supernatural)
"Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods."
- Norman Borlaug
(Related: Gods, Catastrophes, Despair, Spirits, Supernatural)
"Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge."
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
(Related: Knowledge, Shakespeare, Supernatural, Witches)
"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Life, Dream, Night, Supernatural)
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Men, Belief, Evil, Supernatural, Wickedness)
"Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Dependence, Feeling, Man, Supernatural, World)
"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Church, Culture, Limitations, Supernatural)
"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Religion, Influence, Reason, Supernatural)
"Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that."
- Terence Fisher
(Related: End, Fact, Mind, Supernatural)
"To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears."
- John Foster
(Related: Character, Shakespeare, Supernatural)
"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."
- John Foster
(Related: Supernatural)
"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Supernatural, Woman)
"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."
- Greta Garbo
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: Engineering, Man, Word)
"I walk in the realm of the supernatural."
- Benny Hinn
(Related: Supernatural)
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Supernatural)
"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."
- Tanith Lee
(Related: People, Gods, Animals, Supernatural)
"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith."
- Karl Lehmann
(Related: Faith, Christian, Communication, Interest, Sense, Spiritual, Supernatural)
"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Play, Supernatural)
"The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural."
- Patti LuPone
(Related: Supernatural, Word)
"The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: God, Church, Evolution, Spiritual, Supernatural)
"I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning."
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
(Related: Bed, Day, Lying, Supernatural)
"The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator."
- Henry M. Morris
"The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Dreams, God, Angels, Nothing, Promises, Spirits, Supernatural)
"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Religion, Authority, Supernatural)
"I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways."
- Anne Rice
(Related: Supernatural)
"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive."
- William Shatner
(Related: Life, Supernatural)
"A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed."
- J. Michael Straczynski
(Related: Fight, Publicity, Supernatural)
"The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts."
- David Friedrich Strauss
(Related: Christ, Facts, May, Miracles, Reality, Supernatural)
"Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural."
- Theophrastus
(Related: Cowardice, Supernatural)
"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own."
- Anne Tyler
(Related: Supernatural, Want)
"I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Feelings, Supernatural)
"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
- Simone Weil
(Related: Genius, Thought, Virtue, Humility, Nothing, Supernatural)
"It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller."
- Ed Wood
(Related: Supernatural)