Anderson MacKinley Quotes

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

I do love the idea of ritual.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

I've always said prayers.

Experience is the mother of custom.

Rituals are important.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

I do love the idea of ritual. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

I believe in rituals.

Good comedy is ageless.

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

People like a bit of color and like a bit of pomp and circumstance and ceremony, and we’re rather better at it than most countries.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.