Quotes about Tradition

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.