Ritual Quotes
Ritual Quote of the day
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.
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.
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.
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No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
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.
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.
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.
....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.
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.
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.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
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.
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.
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
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.
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
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.
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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.
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
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.
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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.
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.
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
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.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
