Ritual Quotes
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Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.
Susanne Langer
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The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.
Kate Green
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It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.
Anita Rau Badami
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I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.
Darrell Wallace Jr.
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Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs in the song 'The Vatican Rag', I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.
Tom Lehrer
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I do love the idea of ritual.
Sarah Silverman
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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!
Catherynne M. Valente
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So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go through. And he would say, who's the greatest of them all? And we - the seven - would say, you are, oh, Great Santini. And he would say, who knows all, hears all and sees all? You do, oh, Great Santini. So this was the ridiculous way I was raised.
Terry Gross
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I don’t think we should give up on ritual. I don’t think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.
Brian D. McLaren
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
Ray Bradbury