Quotes & Sayings About Ritualism

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion only helps; until and unless it degenerates into either ritualism or fanaticism, or worse the both! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth. — Chuck Smith

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass. — Ambrose Bierce