Quotes about Tradition

Here is a scene that happens in Brazil thousands of times each day: It's early morning. Time for young Marcos to leave for school. As he gathers his books and heads for the door, he stops by his father's chair. He looks into his father's face. "Benção, Pai?" (Blessing, Father?) Marcos asks. The father raises his hand. "Deus te abençoe, meu filho" (God bless you, my son), he says.

We cackled like two old crones, remembering a secret past. The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the Black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.

Momma, always self-conscious at public displays of emotions not traceable to a religious source, told me to come with her and we'd bring the bread and bowls.

She would have been more surprised than I had she taken me in her arms and wept at losing me. Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and her place. I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.

She wanted to remind them that Christmas was more than just glitter and garlands—but that color and sparkle were a wonderful way to celebrate the real Joy of Christmas. And before she walked away, she lifted the baby Jesus and gave it a little kiss—just like she'd always done—and laid it in the manger.

Southern Baptists don't pick at their food. What we don't drink, we eat.

Ours was a patriarchal world. To be anything different wouldn't have been Southern Baptist.

I like how it presented this contradiction because traditionally gay people have been shut out from the church, so 'Sanctify' was claiming a bit of that back and saying, 'My sexuality is holy.'

Kumbh Mela is the best way to get an insight of our culture.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.