Quotes About Tradition

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fired chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Wschodnioeuropejscy ?ydzi stworzyli barwny ?wiat. Mieli j?zyk i literatur?, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemie?lników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, ?arty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania g?owy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który bra? si? z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego ?wiata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie daj? wyobra?enia o nim.

Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.

Maximus has been called unscriptural, but Scripture is the background and the presupposition for all that he does, to a wholly different degree than in the one-sided scholastic theology or spiritual works of the sixth century. The Confessor's first major work is his set of answers to the questions of his friend Thalassius on passages in the Holy Scriptures.42 Maximus offers these answers from the fullness both of the exegetical and spiritual tradition and of his own personal meditation.

If orthodoxy is impure water, he tells us, neology is liquid manure.

Bitler, politikan?n önemli bir parças? olmu?tur. ?sveç Hurdenburg'da, Orta Ça?'daki belediye ba?kan? seçimi anlat?l?r: "Adaylar masan?n etraf?na oturur, ba?lar?n? e?ip sakallar?n? masaya koyarlar. Sonra bir bit masan?n ortas?na konur ve hangisinin sakal?na giderse o, s?radaki y?l için belediye ba?kan? seçilir.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.

If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for Christian minds to feed on. But Christians are being truncated and deformed by the fact that men and women have to leap about from one tradition of discourse to another as they move in thought and discussion from moral matters to political matters, from ecclesiastical matters, to cultural matters.

'The Christmas Song ' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.

The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way.

Mai bine interesat de religie decit de chestiile in care,pe timpurile astea , se vira tineretul.

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Now all you two have to do is wait till the sun goes down," he said, adding mischievously, "Fool thing to do, too, if you ask me, gettin' married near the longest day-and the shortest night of the year.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

The ways you and I conduct our Christian lives and the churches we attend are culturally influenced,

In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture. As a result, postmoderns take distinctly anti-modern views on the deeper questions of human life: social, political, moral, and spiritual questions.

The wisdom of elders is ancient and necessary in human history, and there is deep value in being skeptical of the wisdom of elders, when that wisdom is out of place, or of the wrong time.