Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and textual critics to go back and verify that the Bible we have in our possession today is the same Bible that the early church possessed 2,000 years ago.
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.
Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mindbody complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.
In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.
. . . . the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. " The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.