Ceremony Quote by Anonymous

I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go…

— Ian Frazier

“The spiritual rituals of Native American Christian communities are perceived as exotic pagan practices that dabble in syncretism and are inferior to the rich…

— Soong-Chan Rah

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might…

— G.K. Chesterton

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony…

— Andre Dubus

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

— Sean Durkin

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

— Martha Graham

Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to…

— Rajneesh

Why is it assumed that if I dance around wearing skimpy costumes, I cannot properly worship my Jesus? I am a born again Christian.

— Rakhi Sawant

“Even the most traditional Indians, the ones who'd kept the old ceremonies alive in secret, either had Catholicism beaten into them in boarding school...or…

— Louise Erdrich

“worship: If we are going to participate in Satanic worship, Indian rituals, cults, new age religions, Masonic rituals, and the other myriad false religions,…

— Cyndy Sherwood

“I believe that it is necessary for the Saints to have amusement, but it must be of the proper kind. I do not believe…

— Joseph Fielding Smith