Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be… — Phil Kearns Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Well, Lord Debonair and Lady Lethal, if we can have a minute of your time, we do have a psycho to hunt.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS and Wal-Mart have all figured out the evolution of life and they grabbed all the products that are… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence.… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can… — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality.… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
![“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and…” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8f8/don-delillo-294_after-death_to-plot-is-to-live-we-start-out-lives-in_1610967.jpg)
![“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f4/ouida-3651_avarice_on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its_1641749.png)
