Quotes About Rituals

Most of these rituals have been gradually brushed aside as pagan superstition or repackaged as tourist attractions (or both). For the most part, all we're left with as an alternative to our mundane lives are our 'national holidays': frantic periods of over-consumption, crammed in the gaps between work, in which we entertain solemn injunctions that consumption isn't really what matters about life.

Judaism: A Modern Movement with an Ancient Past

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing that they were eating the son's body and drinking his blood. If they believed strongly enough, they would live on forever after they died.

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But it is equally clear and certain that the Dionysos of Greek worship and of the drama was not a babe in the cradle.

Baseball is just a game. But like religion, it has rituals. I need rituals. I need traditions. I need something to believe in, whether I worship in a church or a stadium. I believe in the Yankees and then divorced them and came all the way back to believing in them again, and what I have learned, if anything, is this: My belief, my faith, transcends individual players and is deeper than the outcome of any game, any season. It is unshakable.

Aunque no se crea en ellas, aunque sean sencillas y se les dé apariencia de trámite, las ceremonias producen su efecto, y por eso se inventaron, supongo: para marcar una línea divisoria, establecer un antes y un después, para convertir en serio lo que no lo era, para subrayar y solemnizar. Para dar una noticia y que así ésta sea asumida, sancionada por la comunidad.