Quotes about Tradition

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

My family has been in the business of manufacturing exclusive handcrafted jewelry for many years.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

To put a finer point on it, the church building is based on the benighted idea that worship is removed from everyday life.

All the traditional reasons put forth for "needing" a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for three hundred years without the help (or hindrance) of church buildings.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

Jesus broke the law of tradition when the love of persons demanded it.

Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.

What is happening here is an unheard-of event: hurtful, offensive, and in radical contradiction to the most venerated tradition of the time. Kenneth Bailey, in his penetrating explanation of Luke's story, shows that the son's manner of leaving is tantamount to wishing his father dead.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.

I come from the era when that continental stuff, the skimmed yogurt and a croissant, was a healthy start to the day.