#supernatural

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas. ↗

— Cameo Renae

#supernatural #thriller #young-adult-fiction #dreams

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess, but the fact remains that she's your mortal bride in the Year of Our Lord 1888- and she's Catholic, so pray for her, damn it, I don't care how confusing it is. And pray for us, to anyone. If the dead are about to flood Athens, divine goodwill couldn't hurt. Your prayers can be in Hindu, if you like. Now go home. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#love #mythology #persephone #prayer #strangely-beautiful-series

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#asking #believe #ghosts #i #i believe

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

#appear #directly #dreams #god #great

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

#anything #apt #child #clint #element

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

#birth #cast #christ #doubts #eternal

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #darwinism #evolution #god-of-the-gaps

Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions? ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#supernatural #supernatural

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#knowledge #supernatural #supernatural

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#evil #horror #supernatural #supernatural