Quotes about Tradition
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.
— Erwin McManus
The Church in England is the Church of England.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation
— Karl Barth
Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
— Pope John Paul II
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
— Albert Einstein
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
— Thomas Merton
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
— Dennis Prager
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
— GK Chesterton
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— GK Chesterton