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445 Ritual quotes by 380 unique authors

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. — Barbara Kingsolver
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same… — John Berger
Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're… — Rolf Potts
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in… — Fred Melamed
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is… — Starhawk
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the… — Starhawk
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in… — Jodie Foster
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals… — Arianna Huffington
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. — Roger Ebert
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core… — Unknown Author
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children… — Wess Stafford
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows… — Janet Morris
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. — John Irving
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we… — Malcolm X
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends… — James W. Fowler
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol… — Rabindranath Tagore
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,… — E. O. Wilson
Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord.… — Dave Hunt
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual… — Bruce McCall
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls… — Brenda Peterson
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away… — Unknown Author
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as the… — Nadine Strossen

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