Ritual Quotes - Page 24

• Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.

  Paula Scher

  People, Needs, Stuff

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• Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

  Dallas Willard

  People, Giving, Church

  Source: renovare.org

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• The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Fate, Rivers

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.

  Vera Nazarian

  Real, Magic, World

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Ultimately, we know that the way a person finds salvation, the way a person comes into a relationship with God is by admitting their sin and turning to Christ. So, I think because they have done religious ritual A or B or C and think that is sufficient and that's all that is expected, now religion has become a barrier instead of a bridge and gives a false sense of satisfaction.

  Greg Laurie

  Religious, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

  Rose Leslie

  Thinking, Doe, Nerves

  "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sweet, Blessing, Remembrance

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  Tahir Shah

  Pain, Secret, Passionate

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Believe, America

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

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• If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mother, Song, Flower

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• I've been doing this new ritual where the first thing I do in the morning is put a tablespoon of coconut oil in my mouth and swish it around. Then I put Kora Organics Rosehip Oil all over my body, which is incredible for your skin, and have a freezing-cold shower, all while I'm swishing the coconut oil in my mouth. It's a way to get the circulation going and to make you feel reenergized and refreshed.

  Miranda Kerr

  Morning, Oil, Skins

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

  Kent Nerburn

  Responsibility, Boys, Past

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.36, New World Library

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Drinking, Self

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• I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

  Greg Laurie

  Jesus, Thinking, Needs

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times". Interview with Maxwell Barnor, greenpasturesministriesghana.org. August 30, 2016.

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• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Spirit

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

  LaToya Jackson

  Yesterday, Today

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• I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not on the basis of whether I wear a yarmulke or whether I have been sprinkled with water while someone said something. Some of the ritual is very beautiful, but I find it difficult to believe that it really has to do with God. I believe that dogma comes from man.

  Andrew Solomon

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

  David B. Coe

  Workout, Jazz, Bluegrass

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't actually be uttered directly but really had to be reached through ritual. You come out of those Masses so moved, and you're like, "Why did that happen?" And the truth of it is that it happened through an hour of highly enacted ritual.

  George Saunders

  Drama, Ideas, Catholic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Feminist, Levels

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.328, Macmillan

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• I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

  Anne Sexton

  Hoarding, Sculpture, Splinters

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• Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in only one Bhakti- Bharat Bhakti! The Government's only strength is Jan Shakti! Government's only ritual is the well being of the 125 crore Indians! The only code of conduct of the Government should be 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas!

  Narendra Modi

  Book, Government, Politics

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• All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Long, Honor

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• I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

  Ed Robertson

  Party, Beer, Goes On

  Source: www.people.com

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