Quotes About Ritual

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

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

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

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

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

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

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

L?ncile genelor se dau la o parte, m? las? s? p?trund - È™i... Cum s? descriu ce face cu mine acest ritual str?vechi, stupid, minunat, când buzele ei le ating pe ale mele? Prin ce formul? s? exprim aceast? vijelie, care m?tur? totul din suflet, în afar? de ea? Da, da, din suflet - n-aveÈ›i decât s? râdeÈ›i, dac? vreÈ›i.

ritual is a magical act that makes the abstract concrete and the fictional real.