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These are used solely for Blood Rites. (Leo) Is that like special ed? (Susan) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship. -- Thomas Ken
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
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
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
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles. -- Albert Mackey
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. -- Dave Grohl
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. -- Pete Townshend
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. -- Bob Hope
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. -- Robert Hughes
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. -- Lance Henriksen
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. -- Aeschylus
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. -- Emile Hirsch
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. -- Steve Earle
Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. -- Nancy Gibbs
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
Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs. -- Anthony Hecht
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action. -- Emile Durkheim
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
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
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. -- Paul Harris
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
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
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
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
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is. -- Chris Abani
One must observe the proper rites. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong. -- Jacob Braude
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties -- William Shakespeare
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. -- William Shakespeare
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. -- Merlin Stone
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. -- Quintus Ennius
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. -- George Washington
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral -- Arthur C. Clarke
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. -- Ambrose Bierce
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. -- Otis Moss III
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. -- Chinua Achebe
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. -- Jim Morrison
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid. -- Ovid
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals. -- Laozi
Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds. -- Bill Plotkin
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. -- Glenn Gould
Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm. -- Pope Clement VIII
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. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting. -- Pope Pius IX
All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping. -- Victor Hugo
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail. -- Thomas Aquinas
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind. -- John Quincy Adams
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species. -- Antonio Lobo Antunes
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust. -- Al-MaÊ¿arri
That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy. -- Pope Gregory XVI
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through. -- Criss Angel

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