Quotes About Rituals

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

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.

religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.

To practice a religion can be lovely, to believe in one is almost always disastrous.

The last bastion of conservatism,' she commented, 'is food.

A culture finds the gods it needs

The passengers and crew gathered each morning and evening and each Sunday for prayers,

practice of female members dancing themselves into a frenzied, almost orgasmic hysteria. The juxtaposition of this with what were otherwise very conservative beliefs and rituals was bizarre to him. Dan wondered what rock-and-roll music and the Shaker sect had in common.

I only attend church for hatches, matches, and dispatches.

We often take these social rituals for granted, but we do so at our own peril. They are more fragile than we think. Like fine crystal, they break easily and are hard to glue back together.

religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?

I was not wholly irreverent. I honored all gods who professed an interest in human folk, and I respected custom and rituals that evoked the great mysteries of the world: death and birth, forests, ocean, and storms, music, copulation, and fermentation.

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.

she says it's a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don't know why they do 'em." from the novella Christopher O'Connor's Romances

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.

the Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Le Streghe non conoscono le origini del loro culto.

Es uz kapu vainagiem skatos ?oti nopietni, - Larijs aizr?d?ja. - Amerik? tos Ziemassv?tkos karina uz durv?m. Pie?emu, ka t?p?c, lai atg?din?tu - cik labi, ka v?l neesam zem tiem.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Couples still indulge in courting rituals, humans still kill humans, and politicians still kiss babies and lie.

Valgymas yra ritualas, o ritualai lengvina gyvenimÄ….

There was a reason for rituals. When you were lost in your own life, they provided a false structure, like paper walls for your house of cards, the illusion that things were predictable and safe sometimes the only thing that got you through.

The most religious moments of American life are undergone on Saturday nights.