Religion is more than rite and ritual.
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.
When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you. (Pause. . . shouts and claps) I want my blood in you. And every time you celebrate this rite, it is a reminder that you belong to me, and I belong to you. And he said, 'I will drink no more wine until I drink it new with you and the kingdom of God. Communion is the most romantic ordinance. Eh, Eh, Eh. (He laughs. Pause. . . the audience shouts and claps. ) It is the most romantic ordinance between two lovers.
Damning, with bell, book and candle Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
One must observe the proper rites.
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.
I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.
The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.
A fav'rite has no friend!
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.
