Quotes about Ritual

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. Votes: 5

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Votes: 5

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. Votes: 5

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question. Votes: 4

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite. Votes: 3

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. Votes: 3

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. Votes: 3

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. Votes: 3

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. Votes: 3

I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. Votes: 3

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. Votes: 3

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. Votes: 3

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. Votes: 3

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. Votes: 3

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind. Votes: 3

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do. Votes: 3

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life. Votes: 3

Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us. Votes: 3

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express. Votes: 3

Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest. Votes: 3

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. Votes: 3

Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again. Votes: 3

Rituals are important. Votes: 2

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. Votes: 2

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. Votes: 2

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. Votes: 2

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Votes: 2

The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth. Votes: 2

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. Votes: 2

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! Votes: 2

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. Votes: 2

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. Votes: 2

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man Votes: 2

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. Votes: 2

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. Votes: 2

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it. Votes: 2

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. Votes: 2

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist. Votes: 2

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging. Votes: 2

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack. Votes: 2

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together. Votes: 2

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat. Votes: 1

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. Votes: 1

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. Votes: 1

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. Votes: 1

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting. Votes: 1

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room. Votes: 1

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one. Votes: 1

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax. Votes: 1

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. Votes: 1

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed. Votes: 1

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. Votes: 1

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it. Votes: 1

Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened. Votes: 1

We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers. Votes: 1

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. Votes: 1

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. Votes: 1

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. Votes: 1

Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up. Votes: 1

Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it. Votes: 1

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school. Votes: 1

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often. Votes: 1

Nothing in life is ritual. Votes: 0

Dance is the ritual of immortality Votes: 0

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual. Votes: 0

Religion is more than rite and ritual. Votes: 0

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry. Votes: 0

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry." Votes: 0

I do love the idea of ritual. Votes: 0

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual. Votes: 0

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter. Votes: 0

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic. Votes: 0

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society. Votes: 0

I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual. Votes: 0

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time. Votes: 0

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies. Votes: 0

I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual. Votes: 0

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order. Votes: 0

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting. Votes: 0

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. Votes: 0

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic. Votes: 0

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice. Votes: 0

It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon. Votes: 0

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual ... Votes: 0

The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot. Votes: 0

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Votes: 0

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. Votes: 0

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. Votes: 0

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. Votes: 0

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. Votes: 0

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans. Votes: 0

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant. Votes: 0

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. Votes: 0

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. Votes: 0

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. Votes: 0

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life. Votes: 0

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. Votes: 0

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. Votes: 0

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun. Votes: 0

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed. Votes: 0

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process Votes: 0

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ... Votes: 0

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass Votes: 0

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga Votes: 0

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. Votes: 0

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. Votes: 0

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. Votes: 0

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church. Votes: 0

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. Votes: 0

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. Votes: 0

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. Votes: 0

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. Votes: 0

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. Votes: 0

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. Votes: 0

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon. Votes: 0

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. Votes: 0

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion. Votes: 0

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. Votes: 0

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. Votes: 0

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos. Votes: 0

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Votes: 0

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best. Votes: 0

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Votes: 0

In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions. Votes: 0

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home. Votes: 0

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual. Votes: 0

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. Votes: 0

Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else. Votes: 0

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. Votes: 0

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. Votes: 0

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. Votes: 0

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. Votes: 0

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. Votes: 0

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. Votes: 0

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. Votes: 0

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being. Votes: 0

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... Votes: 0

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. Votes: 0

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. Votes: 0

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. Votes: 0

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Votes: 0

Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it. Votes: 0

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world. Votes: 0

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. Votes: 0

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. Votes: 0

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. Votes: 0

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom. Votes: 0

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem. Votes: 0

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. Votes: 0

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. Votes: 0

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister. Votes: 0

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. Votes: 0

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship. Votes: 0

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency. Votes: 0

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot. Votes: 0

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. Votes: 0

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible. Votes: 0

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other. Votes: 0

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on. Votes: 0

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God. Votes: 0

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. Votes: 0

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education. Votes: 0

I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in. Votes: 0

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration. Votes: 0

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. Votes: 0

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. Votes: 0

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive! Votes: 0

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. Votes: 0

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game. Votes: 0

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us. Votes: 0

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love. Votes: 0

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. Votes: 0

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country. Votes: 0

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens. Votes: 0

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling. Votes: 0

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual. Votes: 0

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. Votes: 0

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time. Votes: 0

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent. Votes: 0

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all. Votes: 0

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. Votes: 0

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture. Votes: 0

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers. Votes: 0

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing. Votes: 0

Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society. Votes: 0

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop. Votes: 0

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth. Votes: 0

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. Votes: 0

Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals. Votes: 0

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world. Votes: 0

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. Votes: 0

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody. Votes: 0

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. Votes: 0

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine. Votes: 0

The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank. Votes: 0

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh. Votes: 0

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality. Votes: 0

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. Votes: 0

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it. Votes: 0

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. Votes: 0

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time. Votes: 0

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died. Votes: 0

Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual. Votes: 0

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path. Votes: 0

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services. Votes: 0

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. Votes: 0

Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget. Votes: 0

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship Votes: 0

The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful! Votes: 0

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition. Votes: 0

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.' Votes: 0

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners. Votes: 0

Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership! Votes: 0

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking. Votes: 0

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life. Votes: 0

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that. Votes: 0

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. Votes: 0

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that. Votes: 0

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat. Votes: 0

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. Votes: 0

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests. Votes: 0

That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?" Votes: 0

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values. Votes: 0

he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for the mercy on the part of bystanders. Votes: 0

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel. Votes: 0

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff. Votes: 0

British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me. Votes: 0

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual. Votes: 0

...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins. Votes: 0

The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup. Votes: 0

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple. Votes: 0

I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them. Votes: 0

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had. Votes: 0

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room. Votes: 0

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money. Votes: 0

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless. Votes: 0

Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap. Votes: 0

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. Votes: 0

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature. Votes: 0

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day. Votes: 0

Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't. Votes: 0

If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty. Votes: 0

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning. Votes: 0