Quotes about Continuity

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Remember, life's phases are connected---yesterday feeds today.....Today's lessons are preparing us for tomorrow's assignments.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I cannot think of a culture in human history, before the present postmodern era, that did not value law, tradition, custom, authority, boundaries, and morality of some clear sort. These containers give us the necessary security, continuity, predictability, impulse control, and ego structure that we need, before the chaos of real life shows up.

As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, " Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name."1

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.