Quotes About Tradition

Men went by ways of old Gods or not of any Gods, but by the violent wills of kings who were their own law.

The Corn King and the Spring Queen, The Conquered, and Memoirs of a Spacewoman.

Occasionally, and for everyone's good, mankind were instructed to offer a fresh and juicy princess to their own particular dragon. It was said that the princesses enjoyed the experience. Certainly the dragons did.

When you look at it, on the surface Japan is very westernized, but westernized in a Japanese way," explains Mitsunori Murata, a nutrition expert and professor of pediatrics at Tokyo Women's Medical College. "Maybe we will eat a hamburger, but it will be Japanese-size, not American.

The automatic rice cooker was launched in 1955 in Japan, revolutionizing housewives' daily routines. Before that, people cooked rice in a heavy pot over a stove.

That was the custom among Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe. Both bride and groom fasted and prayed on their wedding day. Among the Sephardim, it was the opposite. They plied the girl with sweets the whole day to give her pleasure and energy. But that practice made too much sense to the Ashkenazim, who found holiness in suffering.

sexual access to the woman is formalized through a public ceremony

For thousands of years

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

In this journey, I began to understand the blessing that I have in holding my faith tradition high when it comes to Jesus because a high Christology is the elemental impulse of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Our missiology has always been clearly defined for us and our ecclesiology has been inherited, healthy or not.

They went off to the Holy Land and went from Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox, which to me sounds like a repackaged detergent–ORTHODOX ULTRA®, now with more deep-healing power.

There were new words for everything in their dead language put back to use. New words for the jets and their radar systems. New words for the tanks and the radios inside. But for this, for the hammer and beat of the forge, the Bible still sufficed.

You know, in the Soviet Union they used to have a tradition of ordering scientists to change their studies to conform with the ideology then acceptable to the state. And scientists in the rest of the world found that laughable as well as tragic.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so.

A novelist can't be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment. A virtuous woman was not supposed to complain about her husband. Her duty was perfect obedience.

We have raised the bar so high on how church is done that few believe they could ever do it themselves. The dark side of this endeavor is that we have lowered the bar of what is means to be a Christian, such that simply showing up to the weekly one-hour event with some regularity and a checkbook is all it takes.

If you're wondering what's wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you're not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because it has what modern stadiums lack: seats that, while often cramped, offer the best views in baseball; and the sense that, if you squint, that could be Smoky Joe Wood pitching to Ty Cobb out there instead of Jeff Fassero and Bobby Higginson.

To a degree that would be astonishing in the United States, Vietnamese in all walks of life could recite long passages from poems, recount folktales and legends, and discuss novels thirty years old as if the characters lived next door.

You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing." "Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

On television, religion, like everything else, is presented, quite simply and without apology, as an entertainment. Everything that makes religion an historic, profound, sacred human activity is stripped away; there is no ritual, no dogma, no tradition, no theology, and above all, no sense of spiritual transcendence.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.