Quotes about Customs
Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.
— Tana French
We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.
— Myles Munroe
by promoting customs that are unlawful for us Romans to adopt or practice.”
— Acts 16:21
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
— Jeremiah 16:8
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.
— James Dobson
It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
— Samuel Johnson
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
— Leviticus 18:30
Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
— Mark 7:13
the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.
— Matthew 23:7
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
— Genesis 43:32
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
— Mark 7:3