Quotes About Tradition

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

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.

Concepts such as love, charity, obligation and tradition all helped to shape medieval attitudes to devotion, but perhaps the most powerful conditioning influence was fear;

I hope he and she that was Miss Wang Wang are very happy together, sitting cross-legged over diminutive cups of tea in a sky-blue tower hung with bells.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

libations of milk and wine.

Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.

God has left a trail of language behind a stormy path of historical activities. That language is primarily the evidence with which theology has to deal—first with Scripture, then with a long history of interpretation of Scripture called church history and tradition, and finally with the special language that emerges out of each one's own personal experience of meeting the living God

Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.

All great peoples are conservative.

It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind.

Fie on these dealers in poison, say I: can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun," Orwell charged in "The Lion and the Unicorn." "It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly." Yet

Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going back several generations.

I would always see my dad who was a big scotch drinker just enjoying his scotch with one ice cube or neat.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.