Quotes
Quotes about Ritual
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. â¢Greg Anderson A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. â¢Jean De La Bruyère Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. â¢Robert Dato A wish is a desire without an attempt. â¢Farmer Digest Oh, the secret life of man and womanâdreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. â¢Zelda Fitzgerald Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. â¢Jean Toomer Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. â¢Anonymous Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. â¢St. Augustine When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. â¢Elizabeth Bowen Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. â¢Goethe Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
