Quotes About Christian Traditions

#1. The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.

Erich Fromm

#2. By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

N. T. Wright

#4. Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

Jane Fonda

#5. In better times, we're celebrate Christmas Eve by attending the nativity play at the Catholic church down the road, watching Joseph and Mary and Baby Jesus try to escape from Herod's soldiers and their wooden swords and AK-47s (it wasn't the most accurate version, but it was funny.)

William Kamkwamba

#6. It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

Michael Tsarion

#7. It has often been noted that the biblical stories recounted in the Quran, especially those dealing with Jesus, imply a familiarity with the traditions and narratives of the Christian faith.

Reza Aslan

#8. Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

Victoria Schwab

#9. I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Pauly Shore

#10. [The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

Pico Iyer

#11. What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.

Ron Glass

#12. All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

David Christian

#13. Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Jerry Coleman

#14. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Wayne W. Dyer

#15. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#16. Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Max Roach

#17. When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#18. For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

Bill McCartney

#19. When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.

Peter Singer

#20. I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

Peter Gallagher

#21. I want to live in a world where the need for pizza belittles that of war.

Jason Barnett

#22. A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Marilynne Robinson