Tradition

“Thus from the beginning of the Church, the community, its traditions and Scripture went together, forming a totality.”

“The music is never fixed. A raga is almost like a melodic being. You have to breathe life into it, and every rendition, every performance, may be different.”

“I say Filipino music instead, which means music from the past or the way to the future.”

“I’ve always been a priest, just like my father and grandfather, but now I’m more an artist than a priest. When people ask me now what I am, I say that I am an artist.”

“What I offer is a theological reflection on the traditional art of allowing our drugged and deadened consciousness to wake up to a life-bringing conversation with the life-giving God.”

““She said that Jesus Christ had been born in S. Salvador [Mbanza Kongo], which was Bethlehem, [and] that he was baptized in [Mbanza] Nsundi, which was Nazareth.””

“إنني لا أخشى على الموسيقى المصرية من الضياع ما دام هناك قرآن أحكمت آياته بالنغم الشرقي”

“Tôi cúi mong vương thượng đem lòng sáng suốt tự xét mình, tìm rộng đến lời dạy bảo của thời xưa.”

“We have to deconstruct the idea that we have to fix on one way of reading the Bible.”

“The poetry, the culture itself, exists not in a dictionary but in the tradition of the spoken word.”

“Following my own father's tradition of stepping down at the age of 75, I see this as a good time to create space for the next generation.”

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”

“In cultures like India’s, the context-sensitive kind of rule is the preferred formulation.”

“若然，則先師孔氏，何不生於中州？今四方來學者，道理均平，願獨生於東魯耶？”

“El futuro del fútbol es su pasado.”

“The Way of the Former Kings fixes and lays down what men must necessarily do and what they should not do. This is called yi.”

“Today, yes even today, the Church gives us Jesus.”

“The only way for us to become great, and even, if it is possible, inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”