Quotes about Tradition

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

Thus hath the Lord said, Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls (Jeremiah 6:16).

The name which I have selected will prepare the reader to expect no new doctrines in this volume. It is simple, unadulterated, old-fashioned Evangelical theology. It contains nothing but the "Old Paths" in which the Apostolic Christians, the Reformers, the best English Churchmen for the last three hundred years, and the best Evangelical Christians of the present day, have persistently walked.

To swear extempore, it was remarked by some, brought an Oxford student into no trouble; but to pray extempore was an offence not to be borne!

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

For the first two or three centuries there were no systems of composed forms of prayer used in any church whatever, as hath been proved.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.