“The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.” LittlesChurchSituationFieldsTraditionComplicatedIslamicScholarshipPriesthood Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today.” PeopleHeartMayTodayActionMovingUnderstandingChurchPrayerCuttingSpecialTraditionRootedPietyChurch Today Book:Questions and Answers Source: Questions and Answers
“Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.” PeopleProblemChurchReligiousGreaterDevelopmentTraditionCatholicRemarkableOpennessPersuasionDesirableCatholic ChurchReligious Traditions Author:Francis Arinze
“Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?” IfsShouldWritingImportantCertainCoursesLeftChurchCasesClearTraditionRegardConstantAncientAriseCommitCatholicismRelativeDisputesApostlesIntercourseRecourseImportant Questions Author:Irenaeus of Lyons
“Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?” ChristChurchCallingTraditionChurch Of Christ Author:K.P. Yohannan
“Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.” MenHeartSoulLightSpiritChurchReligiousSonHolyPureTraditionMissionsUselessHoly SpiritEtcAbandonAsiaTaoPure HeartReligious TraditionsDionysusOsirisOceania Author:Simone Weil
“As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.” ReasonChristianSufferingChurchComfortableTraditionObligationRecognitionExplicitAlleviateMethodists Author:Hillary Clinton
“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.” SpiritualPoliticalBlackChurchLeaderKingsGayTraditionProfoundActivismRhetoricHostileLutherStaturePolitical RhetoricProfound Spiritual Author:Camille Paglia
“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.” Has BeensStatesLightGovernmentLosesChurchReligiousGroupsPolicyCapacityTraditionPerformancesCriticizeEthicalUnjustCozy Author:Edd Doerr
“There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksHas BeensYoungChristChurchPossibilityTraditionWesternRadicalReformVitalityFidelityWestern World Author:George Pell
“Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.” PeopleShouldStatesScienceChurchDemocracyBenefitsTraditionAccustomedDisadvantages Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.” MayLittlesBookStoriesBornChurchOpinionAuthorityJudgmentTraditionTestsOppositesEnglandBlindMereExperimentsHillsCustomsTowersEldersCredulitySwallowingRidgesChurch Of EnglandBowing Down Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.” MenShouldLawChurchForgetChristianityTraditionLife And Death Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.” MeanWould BePastFormChurchTraditionRussiaIdeologyOrthodoxOur FutureOur PastAutocracyOrthodox Church Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.” ArtChurchMysteryMassTraditionCrossesMiracleArchitectureAtmosphereAweStationsPositive ThingsLiturgy Author:Frank McCourt
“This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.” WorldCountryStatesFightingWinningGrowsChurchUnitedUnited StatesEuropeTraditionWiserAristocracySupremacy Author:John Bright
“The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come from a strong culture, you can decide what you agree with and what you don't agree with. If you're given a blank canvas, it's almost harder in life.” IfsCultureStrongGivenChurchTraditionHarderAgreeBagsBlankCanvasComing BackBlank Canvas Author:Steve Coogan