I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases,… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion.… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me,… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
“Hygge is a phenomenon that reflects our way of inhabiting the world. The routines that shape our days locate us - from… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists;… — Gerald Gardner Copy Share Image
I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after showering and… — Grace Hightower Copy Share Image
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
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