Quotes About Rituals

At the same time, traditions and rituals remain essential to the military mystique. They instill a sense of belonging and importance in the lives of young soldiers.

The Masons have done little in the centuries since to rid themselves of their perceived reputation as a festering cauldron of dark intrigues and the mystical arts.

It can easily be judged that if the churches observed ceremonies correctly, their dignity would be maintained and reverence and piety would increase among the people.

Regarding the adversaries' quoting the Fathers about the offering for the dead, we know that the ancients speak of prayer for the dead, which we do not ban.

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.

I've had a Hindu upbringing. There's a lot about it I think is cool. Temples are amazing. It's a nice vibe when people are praying. And there's lots about it where I understand why they believe those things. But I'm not practising.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Comparing George to Zachary Bronson was like comparing a prince to a pirate. If one spent ten years doing nothing but drilling rules and rituals into Bronson's head, anyone would still glance at him and immediately proclaim him a scoundrel. Nothing would ever dispel the rascally gleam in his black eyes or the heathen charm of his smile.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.

Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

Many, many mantles are worn—or discarded—on Halloween night, wizard.

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

Human sacrifice," the skull chirped brightly. "The slaughter of an innocent.

Some of the habits back then seem not so much of another era as from a different planet. On the Friday lunchtime before home games, for instance, the trainer Tom Curry used to inflate the match ball, lace it up and immerse it in a bucket of water, where it stayed, kept submerged by a brick, until just before kick-off. It would then be pulled out ready for action, saturated, weighing about half a ton.

Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams.

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

The wedding lasts for two or three days, but the trouble stays longer.

forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?