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The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

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Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

Jaroslav Pelikan Professor

The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

Jaroslav Pelikan Professor

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Jaroslav Pelikan Professor

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

Jaroslav Pelikan Professor

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

Allen Wheelis Psychoanalyst

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

Andrew Saul Businessman

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

Anthony Bourdain Chef

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?

Benedict Cumberbatch Voice Actor

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is

Bertrand Russell Philosopher

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

Bruce C. Hafen Author

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