Rashid Johnson Quotes

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.

Ageless ritual is very good.

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.

I believe in rituals.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

I've always said prayers.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

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

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

Nothing in life is ritual.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Experience is the mother of custom.

Rituals are important.

Habit had made the custom.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.