Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
J. C. RyleExperience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
J. C. RyleFathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
J. C. Ryle