All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I've been doing this new ritual where the first thing I do in the morning is put a tablespoon of coconut oil… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
“Human beings have a natural urge to worship that “something greater” which coheres us, but we, in modernity, are living in a… — Toko-pa Turner Copy Share Image
In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant… — David P. Murray Copy Share Image
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. — John Green Copy Share Image
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.” — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
“In our deeds we can structure our lives so that the simple things that we do everyday, from bathing to cooking, have… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“Dancing should transcend hobby, it should be a ritual, a meeting point between mortals and immortals.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual. — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
