Alternatives Quote by Jaroslav Pelikan Download Open image “The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition” — Jaroslav Pelikan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alternatives Culture Inspirational Love Tradition
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of… — George Blake Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for the transmutation… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply. — Don Chipp Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
