Quotes About Tradition

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.