"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"

"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"

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

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

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

"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"

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting"

"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"

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

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