Quotes about Tradition

Personally, I always loved the 1 p.m. Sunday games.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

More often than not religious rites are performed out of fear or superstition. And they are seldom questioned or examined.

His stories are so Eastern

Contrary to what is popularly believed, deep in the heart of India, especially with the Nambudiris, society is quite matriarchal. Her step of faith in Christ, therefore, was a bigger blow to the family than one

Ona and Yagan people.

Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.