“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.” ThinkingWorldArtDoneReligiousLossDealsModernPaintingReturnEternalLosingDamageCustomsOur WorldSecularModern Art Author:Antoni Tapies
“The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.” IfsHandsReligiousSimpleKissingAtheistTreatedSuperiorsEsteemGreekTemplesCustomsComplimentInferiorsCeremonyPaganismTokensSalutations Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.” WorldGivingBookLawReligiousStrangeUniqueDetailsLimitationReasonableCustomsNotableAmerican WomanEeriePanache Author:Gilbert Sorrentino
“I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.” ShowsChristianLawNationsChristReligiousMoralTeachingAuthorityMassAddGuidesCustomsVolumeDeclarationMosesUtteranceChristian Nation Author:David Josiah Brewer
“The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.” LongSeemsPoliticalNaturalReligiousSpaceRecordsFashionFlowerHabitEuropeBritishChristmasDawnCustomsSurvivedFestivalsPaganismPaganFestivitiesGreeneryMidwinter Book:Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain Source: Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain