Quotes About Tradition

The Islamicist account of the rise of Islam is overwhelmingly based on ?ad?th, indeed on ?ad?th as opposed to the Qur??n, reflecting the preference for tradition that prevailed among Muslims themselves until quite recently. It is the revolt against traditional tafs?r, the move back to the Qur??n, of the modernists that allows all of us to take the Qur??n as evidence in a way that would have been unthinkable forty years ago.

Ludilo i strast su se uvijek izmjenjivali. Kroz cijelu zapadnu književnu tradiciju. Ludilo je obilje egzistencije. Ludilo je na?in postavljanja teških pitanja.

And if you, Miss Hilary, could blow up that fire and put on a kettle, we will make her a nice cup of tea. In fact I think we all should all be the better of a nice cup of tea.

People are so proud of their names that they strive to perpetuate them at any cost.

When the old-time lover proposed to his sweetheart, did he just use words of love? No! He went down on his knees. That really showed he meant what he said. We don't propose on our knees any more, but many suitors still set up a romantic atmosphere before they pop the question

What takes over when knowledge disappears is tradition.

It is one of the defects of an age with no true sense of its past to suppose that what is now is what has always been, and that anything else is either novel or wrong or both.

The lessons I taught you, the tradition I have passed on, all that you heard me say or saw me do, put into practice; and the God of peace will be with you (Phil. 4:9, NEB).

our minds have come down to us through history

An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.

Dallas held that historic Christian knowledge represents the "knowledge of God" made available to us through tradition, scriptures, reason, and experience. As such, we must be willing to suffer the consequences of conserving the truth, speaking truth in love, and trusting God to care for us when the public tide turns away from what God has revealed as good and best.

Nothing in Christianity is original.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Ah, yes Langdon said with a knowing smile. Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex? Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley? Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex? - Robert Langdon

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?

Bagi generasi muda, perubahan itu terlalu lambat Bagi kaum tradisionalis tua, perubahan itu menghujat

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.

Ah, yes," Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex?

It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most --- our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed. - Robert Langdon

In this age when different cultures are killing each other over whose definition of God is better, one could say the Masonic tradition of tolerance and open-mindedness is commendable.

El culto a Dios es como la extracción de combustibles fósiles -sostuvo uno de ellos-. Es una actividad de mentes cerradas y sin sentido, pero mucha gente inteligente la sigue practicando, porque ha invertido en ella demasiados recursos

While Christian tradition favored literal images of its gods and saints, Islam focused on calligraphy and geometric patterns to represent the beauty of God's universe. Islamic tradition held that only God could create life, and therefore man has no place creating images of life—not gods, not people, not even animals.