The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
Those who like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,… — Origen Copy Share Image
I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
I'm conscious of the fact that I'm sort of a bridging figure. I have my Chinese literary heritage and cultural background, so… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,'… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
Honor Yourself is more than just food for the soul-it is true healing for the heart. Patricia Spadaro provides an honest approach… — Ann Louise Gittleman Copy Share Image
We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I… — Paul L. Maier Copy Share Image
It was worth it to serve alongside my brothers and sisters in arms. And it was worth it to be part of… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I always encourage them to practice in a way that will help them go back to their own tradition and get re-rooted.… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that… — John Renbourn Copy Share Image