Rites Quotes

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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good… — J. G. Ballard
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties — William Shakespeare
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it… — Florence Nightingale
It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven....We… — Mark E. Petersen
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in… — Plutarch
If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position.… — Rennie Harris
Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old… — Pope Clement VIII
That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be… — Pope Gregory XVI
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is… — Pope Pius IX
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of… — Pope Leo XIII
For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn… — Pope Leo XIII
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .… — Carlton J. H. Hayes
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. — Bob Hope
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of… — James E. Talmage
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral — Arthur C. Clarke
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning.… — Hamza Yusuf
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,… — Joseph Campbell
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith

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