Quotes About Tradition

Queremos regresar a la antigua morada donde el ala de un ángel cubría a nuestros padres, queremos recobrar esa moral que hasta el postrer instante santifica la vida

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

Our goal as parents should be to endeavor to pass down our faith to the next generation in such a way that they will be able to pass down their faith to the following generation in our absence.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

So what kind of minister do your folks want?" I asked. "Who cares? They're olds, too. They want someone who will like them more than Tom Fox does. But I think we need someone younger and not some old-school lady minister going on and on with the Mary Oliver and the Annie Dillard." I liked both writers and said so.

The church will be fine," said Tom. "The church is fine." "Sparlo always said, 'Ministers come and go but the church endures.

Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books , of course.

To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again- Egyptian Proverb

Maar wie zijn wij om vragen te stellen over de wijze waarop de Hertenstam met de dingen omgaat?' zei ze net zo uit de hoogte als Durrain. Hij grijnsde breed. 'Ja, dat zou een dom lid van de Ravenstam zoals jij niet moeten doen.' Ze gaf hem een por in zijn ribben.

I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We can only imagine the repercussions if, today, someone took one of their children and attempted to offer him or her as a sacrifice to please God, professing that God had told them to do it. No doubt such a person would be arrested and placed under psychiatric care, as they should be. But the Abraham story has become so familiar that we fail to read its disturbing dark side.

Pero la fondera no se dejaba por aquello de que la que da el beso da el queso.

A soplidos le sacaba la fondera los ojos al fuego, sin dejar de repetir entre dientes: «Fuego y luego, luego y fuego». A

Me gusta esta costumbre de la rúbrica por lo inútil

Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

Communist Marxism and Capitalist Liberalism are both managed by the same forces and both walk to the same end; to destroy all tradition based upon blood and soil

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories of the ideas that mattered most to our ancestors, and to ignore them is an act of childish conceit. But it is equally naive to believe that whatever was written down in the past contains an absolute truth that lasts forever.

There are natives of New Guinea who spend more time looking in the jungle for the colorful feathers they use for decoration in their ritual dances than they spend looking for food. And this is by no means a rare example: art, play, and ritual probably occupy more time and energy in most cultures than work.

W]hat we call religion is actually the oldest and most ambitious attempt to create order in consciousness. It therefore makes sense that religious rituals would be a profound source of enjoyment.

Peasant women in Eastern Europe, for instance, were not judged to be ready for marriage unless they had learned to cook a different soup for each day of the year.

of the Zen masters might have been excellent in their own time—and might still be the best, if

In order to survive, cultures must eliminate most of the new ideas their members produce. Cultures are conservative, and for good reason. No culture could assimilate all the novelty people produce without dissolving into chaos.

Variety and frequency of sexual encounters have taken precedence over the depth and intensity of the relationship in which they are embedded. It is ironic that on this issue the traditional teachings of the churches are closer to a scientific position than the up-to-date beliefs of the populace, for an evolutionary approach confirms that the original purpose of sexuality is making children and binding the parental couple.