“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.” ArtBlackReligiousPrayerLevelsMagicSacrificeEqualAssumingBackgroundsRitualReligious RitualsBlack Art Author:James G. Frazer
“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.” WholeGovernmentSpiritualSinSacrificeBloodIsraelRitualTypicalCalvary Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.” ArtFormDesireChurchReligiousViewsCreativeSacrificeBloodRevolutionCrossesInstrumentsConvictionBelieverAcceptedSymbolsDefinedTortureWorks Of ArtRitualPeculiarSermonsMonumentDenominationsInscriptionsBlood Sacrifice Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.” LooksSacrificeMetaphorRitualHomeopathy Book:Versed Source: Versed
“The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.” MadeWould BeTogetherUsedWishCommunitySacrificeObjectsBuiltAppropriatePriestsRitualShrines Author:Chris Abani
“"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices and ceremonies, to ensure that they stayed happy and kept the city safe.” WorldCitiesPracticeSacrificeSafeOccasionsRitualHonoredCeremonyGuardianDeities Author:Larry Hurtado
“Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.” KnowsStatesBodySpiritualHeavenWealthSilenceVirtueGraceSacrificeDivineUnionsCharityFinalsDevotionLiberationBlissRitualIdentificationRenunciationAusterityDeathless Author:Ramana Maharshi
“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.” ReligionEvilSacrificeDevilResponsibleGravesGood And EvilRitualMisunderstoodDiggingSatanism Author:Marilyn Manson
“The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.” HeartLawWrittenSacrificeListeningRitualResponding Author:Leslie Ludy