Quotes about Tradition

There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.

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.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

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

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

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.