“You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.” TryingBodyReligionGrowsGrowing UpSymbolsVisualsImagery Author:Robert Gober
“There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.” Would BeReligionValuesWomenWorshipAidsSymbolsPurityWorship Service Author:Lily Montagu
“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.” SelfWantedLawReligionWomenSecretHappenedBirthDignityEssenceAddAccidentsAcceptedChosenSymbolsDistinctionMeaninglessBrotherhoodJudaismHoodStigmaYokeInitiationKosher Author:Jessie Sampter
“In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.” LifeImportantPlayReligionTreeObjectsEternalRootsEternityMiracleSacredSeedsSymbolsStreamsCultEternal LifeVenerationAssyrians Book:History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes
“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.” MayLongWarDreamChristianAmericaReligionPresidentChristianityPrayingOne DayWorshipDareSymbolsNecksBroadsI PrayDaylightMaybe One Day Author:Jon Stewart