Quotes about Continuity

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

What St. Augustine so aptly says of the mutual relation of the Old and New Testament, "Novum Testamentum in Vetere latet, Vetus in Novo patet,

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.

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