Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remem…

- Jaroslav Pelikan

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

- Jaroslav Pelikan

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

- Jaroslav Pelikan

An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unansw…

- Jaroslav Pelikan

Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the r…

- Jaroslav Pelikan

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

- Jaroslav Pelikan

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on …

- Jaroslav Pelikan

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but …

- Jaroslav Pelikan

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 liv…

- Jaroslav Pelikan