Religious Ritual Quotes

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the Anglican Church was part of our lives.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.

In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not see how an infant could properly receive this ordinance as an expression of his or her faith.

I had a full exorcism performed on me from an archbishop.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part of my disposition definitely did lend itself to finding my way to the back door of some artistic pursuit.

Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.