Quotes about Ritual

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey.

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.

Give me that old-time religion,It's good enough for me.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

[Bottle feeding] also made a fetish out of cleanliness, and maybe all the washing and scrubbing has further reduced the pleasure we take in our body and in life.

Hoc est enim Corpus meum [For this is My Body].

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

ALTAR  (A'LTAR)   n.s.[altare, Lat. It is observed by Junius, that the word altar is received, with christianity, in all the European languages; and that altare is used by one of the Fathers, as appropriated to the Christian worship, in opposition to the aræ of gentilism.]1. The place where offerings to heaven are laid. The goddess