When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad,...

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life’s factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts,...

Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s “tradition.

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will...

Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l’infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.

If you just go by records and stats, it looks like we should be the final two. That makes it special. The traditions behind both schools makes it an interesting basketball game.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? – A.Y.’I’m going to...

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood...

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done...

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus’ day.

MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the...

Law, religion and tradition condemns and murders while grace justifies and saves

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church’s proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of...

unnecessary, divisive and utterly inconsistent with our constitutional traditions.

It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons,...

I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.

I think a lot of this is about traditions.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

They’ve always had a great tradition. It’s great to be a part of something like that. I think it’s a town, a community and a school that wants to get back to it.

Sufism is experiential

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

Until we put off the garment of law and tradition and put on that of relationship and grace, we’ll be living under the bondage of religion

Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.

I’m offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that’s all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it’s not really that intense or even that serious, but...

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it’s damn good for you.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago...

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

Sometimes we get so enamored with the tradition of something that we forget about the intent of it.

The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and...

not” in their destiny.

The church’s theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral teachings that were universal and unconditioned. Thus it...

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Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere – everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we’re all living in different worlds because we’re on different continents.

The believer is not a slave to fashion.

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They’re just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.

We have to remember tradition is great as long as it doesn’t hold back progress.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people’s religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We’re pleased for the chance to pay our respects