Top 356 Rituals Quotes & Sayings

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.

Rituals build brands.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

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

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

You could also say that a precious brand often has rituals associated with it. They reinforce the specialness of the brand. And of course the brand owner can help ensure those rituals are created.

When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives.

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us, but for those we want to pass them on to.

I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.

The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

Rituals are magical.

I believe in rituals.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

I'm a big fan of rituals in general because I'm a firm believer in muscle memory.

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals

Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.

My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam has, deeply imbedded in those rituals are principles of truth. And sometimes we get lost in the religiosity; we get lost in the "symbol," but we miss the substance of the truth that is buried in the ritual!

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

Rituals are important.

It's so important to engage your kids to create rituals and moments that they will always remember.

I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.

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.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. Why? Because everyone involved is committed to certain non-negotiable core values. Traditions keep them alive. Rituals such as special occasions reaffirm them. Symbols serve as constant reminders of their enduring importance.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.