Quotes About Tradition

It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our feet, but by our hearts.

Wicca is a living, evolving religion.

the Episcopal Church of Scotland prayed, until as late as 1788, for the Stuarts.

Queen Mary, too, remained faithful to the pre-First World War opulence approved of by her husband. Whatever else might change, one could always be sure of Queen Mary's toques, ankle-length skirts, lace parasols and long, pointed shoes.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine, rien sur lui-même, sur son développement. De manière analogue, il faudrait que la philosophie ne se ramène pas à des catégories mais en un certain sens qu'elle se mette à composer.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

The object of such historiography is to disconnect everyone from a real sense of a living past and a living culture.

In the history of art, unlike that of science, what comes after is not necessarily better than what came before.

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.

No man is so brilliant that he can work out everything for himself, so that the wisdom of ages has nothing useful to tell him. To imagine otherwise is to indulge in the most egotistical of hubris.

A healthy modern society must know how to remain the same as well as change, to conserve as well as to reform. Europe has changed without knowing how to conserve: that is its tragedy.

The logic of an arms race came to rule in art: and legions of untalented hacks who came after Miró devoted themselves to thinking about what had never been done before rather than about what they wanted to express.

We are the heirs of the ages

In Sicily where food is love and the street is a stage street food is more than a cheap meal it's Communion.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Even if the church began to grow on its own, the members of the dying church would only accept the growth if the new members were like them and if the church would continue to "do church" the way they wanted it.

If given a choice between life and death, most church members and church leaders choose death if they have to make substantive changes in their churches.

Sometimes the confused includes those who want to hang on to some tradition for their own sense of security and comfort. They may sincerely believe the tradition to be vitally important. They don't see that there is no intrinsic or doctrinal value in these items.

Yes, we respect the past. At times we revere the past. But we can't live in the past.

The churches were purposeless. They were engaged in an activity called, "This is the way we've always done it.

The most pervasive and common thread of our autopsies was that the deceased churches lived for a long time with the past as hero. They held on more tightly with each progressive year. They often clung to things of the past with desperation and fear. And when any internal or external force tried to change the past, they responded with anger and resolution: "We will die before we change.

Members of the dying churches really didn't want growth unless that growth met their preferences and allowed them to remain comfortable.