Quotes About Traditionalism

#1. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#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. Wisely put it years ago, " 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."1

Richard Rohr

#4. 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

#5. I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.

Christopher Abbott

#6. Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.

Kay Honeyman

#7. He was formulating a plan. He would redeem the dream. I could understand that. It is the universal blessing - and curse - of those who dare.

Rick Yancey

#8. An alternative modernity worthy of the name would recover the mediating power of ethics and aesthetics. This would be accomplished not by a return to blind traditionalism but through the democratization of technically mediated institutions. Power

Andrew Feenberg

#9. The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. Whenever we are tempted to despair about the shape of American Christianity, we should remember that Jesus never promised the triumph of the American church. He promised the triumph of the church.

Russell D. Moore

#11. 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

#12. I don't like overt traditionalism.

Robbie Robertson

#13. Modern colonialism won its great victories not so much through its military and technological prowess as through its ability to create secular hierarchies incompatible with the traditional order.

Ashis Nandy

#14. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

Bradford Cox

#15. While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.

Jack E. Weller

#16. Traditionalism is not fashionable. It is the dog-crawl to fashion's catwalk.

Fennel Hudson

#17. Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability.

Rene Guenon

#18. A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

Craig Mercier

#19. I used to try and forget, now I desperately try to remember.
I used to control my thoughts, now they control me.
I used to fear death, now I fear life.

Lynn Marie Smith

#20. RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.

Sylvia Nasar