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• If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Mistake, Would Be

  Matt Chandler (2015). “The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption”, p.99, David C Cook

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reason, Natural, Unlawful

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.666, 谷月社

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• To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

  Elif Safak

  Prayer, Heart, Differences

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• But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Animal, Flames

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Drinking, Names, America

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• But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Heart, Purpose, Sacred

  Thomas Yellowtail (2007). “Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way”, p.72, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Catholic, Church, Comfort

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

  Joshua Ferris

  Mother, Father, Divorce

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• I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Order, Culture

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• We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.

  Oren Lyons

  Law, Two, Enjoy Life

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• Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Teaching, Gay

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• I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.

  Wayne Hussey

  Wine, Cutting, Preparation

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

  George Muller

  Reality, Christianity, Holy

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Vol. 2, part 4". Book by George Müller, 1855.

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• Growing up, the major institutions were school and church. We were taught our culture was no good. We didn't have sundances. The last ones were in the 1940s and '50s. They're starting to come back now. Each reserve is starting to have a Big Lodge and a sundance ceremony. That's what's going to rebuild our people.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Growing Up, School, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax."

  T.R. Reid

  President, Creation, Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us an ally. The current president, Xi Jinping, cultivates close relations with South Korea. He has never met with me, the leader of North Korea, something that the leader of China has always done. At the grand celebrations in Beijing two years ago commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, he placed the president of Russia and the president of South Korea at his side. In North Korea, we pay a lot of attention to ceremonies and what they signal.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Selfish, War, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is how we'll generate hope - for all Canadian people.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Past, People, Focus

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The night before the Olympics opening ceremony, my son, who is eight years old, gets very excited and likes to put out a plate of cookies and some milk for Bob Costas.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Son, Night

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• The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent
  upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.

  Diego Cortez

  Buddhist, Real, Buddhism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Agony, Icons, Space

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.118, Penguin

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• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  Arthur Smith

  Awards, Listening, Radio

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• Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Inspiring, Memorial Day, Gratitude

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Animal, Men

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