“ Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. ”
- John Lennon- Copy
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“ A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ The real presence of Christ's most precious Body and Blood is not to be sought for in the Sacrament, but in the worthy receiver of the Sacrament. ”
- Richard Hooker- Copy
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“ You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
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“ There is a good reason they cal these ceremonies 'commencement exercises' Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ”
- Orrin Hatch- Copy
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“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”
- Mark Dayton- Copy
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“ It is going to be a great celebration. Everybody, obviously, is going to enjoy it. ”
- Rudy Giuliani- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas Howard- Copy
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“ Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. ”
- Christina Baldwin- Copy
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“ Any religion…is for ever in danger of putrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
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“ The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ”
- Joseph Wood Krutch- Copy
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“ Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ 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 known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'. ”
- A. Whitney Brown- Copy
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“ Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. ”
- John Schumaker- Copy
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“ 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 and self-mortification. ”
- Bruce McCall- Copy
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“ A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! ”
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger- Copy
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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. ”
- F. Gonzalez Crussi- Copy
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“ For prayer is not a ritual; it is the soul's inherent response to a relationship with a loving Father. ”
- Colleen Townsend Evans- Copy
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“ Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. ”
- David P. Gardner- Copy
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