However, on the backside of empty ritual and religious exercises unappropriated, another danger lurks: the triumph of private feelings and the subjective captivity of the gospel. (religion-online.org)
I can understand why Jesus spent so much time demoting empty ritual and emphasizing relationship (both vertical and horizontal). (nakedpastor.com)
Thus the endless empty rituals of the later Byzantine Empire or of the decayed Chinese Empire as portrayed in The Last Emperor. (firstthings.com)