Quotes about Tradition

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you? Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.

It was the old New York way of taking life without effusion of blood: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than scenes, except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.