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I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered… — Samuel Chadwick
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. — Laozi
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the… — W. P. Kinsella
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the… — Samuel Chadwick
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu
I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga — Britney Spears
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the… — Walter Truett Anderson
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual… — A. Whitney Brown
Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to… — Paulo Coelho
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family… — Beverly Sills
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. — Lexa Doig
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world. — Scott Cunningham
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that… — Jacques Vallee
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… — Alain de Botton
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant
His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf… — J. G. Ballard
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help… — Jennifer Aniston
When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration. — Deepak Chopra
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such… — Thomas Berry
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does… — Joan D. Chittister
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land… — Frederick Seitz
Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected. — Tony Campolo

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