Quotes About Rituals

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations.

In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,Wool of bat, and tongue of dog.

Fetishism and idolatry are the gateway to polytheism. Certain spirits are elevated in esteem and power so that they are now considered gods. Rituals develop; superstitions give way to prayers and sacrifices; relationships among the deities are recognized and get complicated. Nevertheless, polytheism is still just animism on a bigger scale.

Although the Lord has accomplished much with regard to Israel to prepare her for His return, He must also prepare the church as His bride....I believe that it will be impossible for the Lord to prepare His bride in today's Christianity as a religious system with all its traditions, rituals, and forms. I also doubt that those entrapped in Christianity will be able to do much to prepare the bride that will bring our Lord back.

We do not need religion, and we do not need regulations and rituals. We need Christ to be our spiritual food.

Another example may be the robust revival today of traditional or pre-revolutionary beliefs, rituals, customs, ceremonies, and even superstitions, most of which were once strenuously denounced and suppressed during the nation's drive for a cosmopolitan modernity.

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

I get superstitious in late summer.

We cats are the most habitual of creatures.

Christianity, like most religious traditions of any vintage, is inherently conservative.

Religion has no positive value.

Because the rituals of the larger culture play a formative role in fashioning our affections, it must be recognized that idolatry is not merely an individual sin but is embedded in the very patterns of civilizations where they take on a systemic character.

For her, being Catholic isn't just about religion-it's about superstition and safekeeping and tradition.

Religion is a set of rituals.

Kindness, not rituals, is mankind's greatest prayer.

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.

dans les mythes et les rituels des religions primitives, Girard l'applique au judéo-christianisme, le Christ étant le fameux bouc émissaire d'abord rejeté, puis divinisé, sacrifié par ses congénères puis reconnu comme leur libérateur par bon nombre d'entre eux.

Sometimes I feel as if we live in hell and don't even realize it. The lacerations are endless. The lies we accept, the rituals we perform. All these useless acts.