"Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church"

"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past"

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any"

"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting"

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming"

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"

"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray"

"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it"