Tradition Quotes - Page 10

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

I am not in favor of a traditional free market.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Custom is almost a second nature.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.