Quotes about Tradition
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
— Mark Twain
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
— Confucius
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
— James Madison
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
— Coco Chanel
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
— William Faulkner
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— GK Chesterton
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
— AW Tozer
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.
— AW Tozer
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
— CS Lewis