Quotes about Tradition

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

When people stepped forward and said, "You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it really means this," it was progressive for their day. They were making new claims about what it means to be true to the Bible. What is accepted today as tradition was at one point in time a break from tradition.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, Good fences make good neighbors.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.