Quotes About Ritual

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Give us this day our daily mask.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

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.

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

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

Have you ever heard of exorcism, Mrs. MacNeil?

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time's recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal—whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.

He waited for their ritual goodnight kisses. They did not come. Alicia

From now on you will eat nothing." Coming-from-the-Water took a skunk skin, slit it, and draped it around Sam's shoulders and chest. "Come," called Bell Rock. A half-dozen men came in, some carrying drums. Immediately, they started a song. "Attention," said Bell Rock. Sam sank his mind into the music. From within the music, he only half-noticed what was done. Bell Rock painted

This tendency toward magic and ritual is almost prevalent enough to be elevated to the level of a law analogous to the second law of thermodynamics, according to which randomness increases within any closed physical system: A religious culture left without strong guidance will tend toward increased ritual and magic.[25]

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Apollo said that everyone's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.