Ceremony Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and…

— Charles Lamb

“Tradition is a detestable peddler of errors, to which, alas, the Devil lends a long and tenacious life.”

— Jean Ray

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have…

— George Santayana

“The first trick the Devil performed on humanity was to create religion. The second one was to coerce/convince decent people to surrender to it,…

— Lamine Pearlheart

“The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve…

— Santa Teresa de Jesús

“Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.”

— Del Suggs

“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death…

— Elbert Hubbard

“As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked”

— Sunday Adelaja

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse…

— Henry Fielding

What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of…

— Donovan

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of…

— John of Kronstadt