Quotes about Heritage

Man is primarily a spiritual being, and as such, is of the nature and substance of the Eternal Spirit, the Unchangeable Reality, which men call God. Goodness, not sin, is his rightful condition; perfection, not imperfection, is his heritage, and this a man may enter into and realize now if he will grant the condition, which is the denial or abandonment of self, that is, of his feverish desires, his proud will, his egotism and self-seeking — all that which St. Paul calls the natural man.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Ancient wisdom is a present blessing.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

We are the heirs of the ages

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

When I hear of the destruction of a species ... I just feel as if all the the works of some great writer had perished.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.