Quotes about Tradition
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
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
— Octavia Spencer
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.
— John Adams
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."
— Henri Nouwen