18 Rites Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli

Religion Country Sign See Rites Contempt Surer Than Decay Held

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus

Silence Proper Purifying Rites Misery Know Schooled Where Many Speech

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. Francis Bacon

Religion Unknown Evils Constant About Rather Rites Divisions Because Quarrels Were Than Heathen Any Ceremonies Reason Belief

A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much. Eden Robinson

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. Emile Hirsch

Good Think Everything Proper Rites Days Polite Passage Where

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage. Emily Weiss

Youth Culture Books Rites Like Identity Passage Explore Youth Culture

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. Guru Nanak

Happiness Service Alone Wife Faithful Depend Ancestors Religious Oneself Rites Highest Performance Bliss Due Offspring Heavenly

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves? Hannah Kent

Every Ourselves Rites Mystery Know Another Truly Encounters Burial Center Us Who Each Whom Ever March Night

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. Hannah Kent

Love Writing Extraordinary Kind Constantly See Ongoing Poetry Rites Could Particular Qualities Ineffable Trying Burial Whether Iceland Landscape Deep

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard

Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri. Mark Fuhrman

Day Family Wife Down Side Immediate See Stays Except Remains Rites Throughout He Feeding Terri Catholic Hall His Michael Tube After Room Ceremony Her Receives Last

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage. Rachel Simmons

Darkest Rites Most Passage Puberty Harassment

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. Robert Hughes

Travel Secular Rites Cathedral Dedicated

I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground. Steffan Rhodri

Freedom Me Experience Down Cricket Teens Summer Rites Since Like Passage Go Been Huge Often Fan Used Ground

I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are. Vincent Nichols

Sense Think Ways Possible Plurality More Variety Rites Remarkable He Catholic Comfortable Catholicism Traditions Than Quite Different Which Us Pope Many Expressions Actually

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. William Robertson Smith

Savage Religion Better Nothing State Tribe Magical Superstitions Rites Individual Terror Foreign Private Dictate Times May Common

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