Quotes About Traditions

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes almost all the difference.

religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

Faith simply is, and what the religious traditions of the world do is to give us guidance as to how to interpret our own experience in the light of what our ancestors have made of it over the centuries.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

cultural rituals exist to reinforce the unity of those performing them.

Church" today is mostly driven by man-made traditions and not by the biblical mandates to defend the Word of God and live by the Word of God.

But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next.

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be "colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers in the old faiths to its alternative religious vision of divinely underwritten personal happiness and interpersonal niceness."23

That's the problem with civilization. Folks think someone else got to make up their rituals for 'em.

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.

Practically everywhere the central point of these festivals lay in exuberant sexual licence, which swamped all family life and its venerable traditions; the most savage bestialities of nature were unleashed, including that atrocious amalgam of lust and cruelty which has always seemed to me the true witch's broth.12

Much of Christmas' beauty is in its sameness. The same traditions. The same meals. The same songs. The same story. Yet each Christmas is a little different.

Myths rule the world.

A veces se preguntaba si los indios no estaban mejor antes, cuando eran dueños de California y vivían a su manera, con sus costumbres y sus dioses, pero enseguida se persignaba y pedía perdón a Dios por tamaña herejía. «¡Adónde vamos a parar si yo mismo dudo del cristianismo!», suspiraba, arrepentido.

In my family, happiness was irrelevant.

Los ritos y ceremonias son tan necesarios como las normas de buena educación y el respeto por las jerarquías.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.