“ It is in the familiar structure of the Mass itself that a Catholic not only encounters but finds himself received into the very gospel itself, day by day, year after year… the entire liturgy is a seamless gospel fabric, so to speak. It is the gospel, in public, ceremonial, ritual, explicit form. ”
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“ Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts. Those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition. ”
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“ It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. ”
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“ Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ”
- Thomas Love Peacock- Copy
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“ How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ”
- Albert J. Nock- Copy
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“ In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. ”
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“ It is not the services we render them, but the services they render us, that attaches people to us. ”
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“ Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd. ”
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“ No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament. ”
- William Tyndale- Copy
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“ JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. ”
- George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff- Copy
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“ I do not want to demonise him and take care in the film not to do that. He was a complex man, full of originality. He was a star on radio and then did all these amazing films. I can not imagine what it would be like to be both blessed and cursed with all that talent. ”
- Geoffrey Rush- Copy
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“ The new high-speed entertainment services offered via the Sprint Power Vision Network represents another key milestone in the development of consumer wireless services,... Sprint already enjoys the highest revenue per retail subscriber in data-oriented services in the industry and will likely woo many more customers with these new, innovative services. ”
- Lewis Ward- Copy
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