Quotes about Tradition

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

Above all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the other and of the effect of tradition and of the lack of tradition upon the mind of a writer