Quotes about Tradition

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Mother Church.

We are the heirs of the ages

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

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.

I mean, that the New World black woman needs a little of the Old World black woman in her, and the other way around. I don't think that they are completely fulfilled without the other.

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

For centuries the writing-desk has contained sheets fit precisely for the communication of friends. Masters of language, poets of long ages, have turned from the sheet that endures to the sheet that perishes, pushing aside the tea-tray, drawing close to the fire (for letters are written when the dark presses around a bright red cave), and addressed themselves the task of reaching, touching, penetrating the individual heart.