“No one offers the rice dishes at their last rites, and no one lights the lamps for them.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I want to emphasize that Rite Aid is one of the top three drugstore chains in the U.S. and is fundamentally a very solid company.”
Leonard Green
“A boar makes the rite useless by inhaling the smell of the offerings , a cock by the air of his wings, a dog by throwing his eye on them , a low caste man by touching them .”
Guru Nanak
“Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony. Our temple of worship is there where outw”
Rabindranath Tagore
“SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We celebrate together tonight that unity and that harmony as we bless these oils for the sacramental rites of the church. In a certain sense Jesus comes as the Anointed One tonight to anoint all of us and to help us be a part of his special mission.”
Cardinal Mahony
