Quotes About Tradition

We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

The popes who succeeded John XXIII were in clericalism's grip, which is why the reforms of his council didn't have a chance.

Having seen what the Catholic priesthood has become, I feel the shock, also, of what it has in some way been all along.

Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating aesthetic and intellectual tradition of Western civilization.

Half the people in that stadium [LSU's Tiger Stadium] can't spell LSU. It doesn't matter. They identify with it.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metal forks for them when eating.

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way

Religious or not, everyone celebrates Christmas in one way or another.

I know we're gathered here for a very solemn occasion. Poor Great-Uncle Frankie has gone the way of the dodo bird, soon to rot in peace. Um, I mean, rest in peace. - Dak

Christians must pioneer new ways to bind ourselves to Scripture, to our traditions, and to each other—not for mere survival, but so that the church can be the authentic light of Christ to a world lost in darkness.

The clash of Watson's and Hollerith's personalities was a classical example of a brash, energetic, visionary newcomer confronting a staid traditionalist.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

Pasaulyje, kuris tampa vis labiau kapitalistinis, vienintelis b?das garantuoti kokios nors kult?rin?s praktikos ar gamtovaizdžio išlikim? - surasti j? komercinio panaudojimo b?d?.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . .

His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.

There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a free country like the United States, with the unrestricted right to travel, a vast geographical territory to spread out into, and a national tradition of picking up and moving whenever life became intolerable, the automobile came as a blessing.

Tradition evolves with time and place while holding strongly to certain formal, cultural, and personal principles. Nostalgia seeks the security of past forms without the inherent principles.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Still drink most o' their beer outta bottles, that's how underdeveloped they are.