Quotes about Tradition

Deeper understanding of the matter is bound to recognize that the Temple, as well as the synagogue, entered into Christian liturgy.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

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

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Personally, I always loved the 1 p.m. Sunday games.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.