Pelikan Quotes

#1. It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.

David Robertson

#2. Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#3. Jon Lovitz. Jon, your act is like masturbation: you're the only one who enjoys it, and you should be arrested for doing it in public.

Bob Saget

#4. We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

#5. An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#6. Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

E.C. Bentley

#7. If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#8. The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#9. The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

Jaroslav Pelikan

#10. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#11. There's nothing like the gift of understanding.

A.D. Posey

#12. They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Johnny Cash

#13. The greatest loss is the lost of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

Jaroslav Pelikan