Like misremembered school bus tragedies and rumors about candy tampering, Trick 'r Treat has managed to incorporate itself into Halloween observances through word of mouth, but its followed a rocky path to get to this point.
But don't you go telling any of them I said that.' In Catholic circles, this is known as grace through observance - the conviction that, if you go through the motions long enough, you'll eventually develop faith.
Grace through observance, kosher-style?
During these years, support had been growing for a new approach to tragedy that aimed at "regularity" through observance of what were called the "classical" unities.
Though the Apostle notes with pride the unique religious heritage of the Jewish people (the Covenant, the Law, the patriarchs, and Christ himself), he declares that righteousness no longer comes through observance of the Mosaic Law, not even for Jews, because God now manifests his righteousness through Christ, whose righteousness is the source of righteousness for all mankind.
Festivals attempt to invoke these qualities through observance and spiritual practice (sadhana).
Children learn first and primarily through observance; if you tell your children to treat everyone with respect then yell at a cashier for taking too long to scan your groceries, your children will remember what you do rather than what you say.
The Senate had acquired more effective control through the observance of certain unwritten rules regulating the relation between Senate and magistrates, to whom it formally gave advice.
The French dramatists, he felt, through their observance of the unities of time and place, wrote plays characterized by a dearth of plot and narrowness of imagination.
