Quotes About Traditions

Religion is perhaps most helpfully conceived of as the question of what tales and traditions our lives embody.

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.

There is a subtle snobbery at play here. It's not so much that anyone denies outright that accounts of deliberative politics reflect historical reality; it's just that no one seems to find this fact particularly interesting. What seems interesting to historians is invariably the relation of these accounts to European textual traditions, or European expectations.

The moral passages in Coffe Slocum's journals were not examples of static African "survivals," or of rote borrowing from Puritan and Quaker beliefs. They were something new in the world—another ethic that emerged when African and European traditions met in the mind of a very bright and able Akan-speaking freedman in eighteenth-century New England.

Increasingly, I learned that the great spirits of religious traditions do not solve all questions but live in the questions, and return to them again and again, not as a circle returns, but as an ascending spiral comes to the same place, each time at a higher level.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

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

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.