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

"Everybody else is an expert on the present. I wish to file a minority report on behalf of the past."

"Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."

-----Jaroslav Pelican 1923-2006

"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."

"Every philosophy consists of certain and uncertain knowledge, of idealism and realism, of sensuousness and deductions. Why should only the uncertain be called belief? "

-----Johann Georg Hamann, from "Kleeblatt Hellenistischer Briefe"