Piety Quotations

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

Yes, I think we have created a culture in which there is a complete absence of piety of any kind. And piety was always an ingredient of culture.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!

Whatever be the topic of conversation, the spirit of piety should be diffused through it - as the salt in our food should properly season it all, whatever the article of food may be (Col. 4:6).

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity. Holiness occurs when the two souls involved in this phenomenon becomes complementary, become one. When those two become one, when the unity can no longer be destroyed, then love acquires the meaning of holiness. Holiness is piety and faith, is fulfilment and self sacrifice, because holiness requires all of this. Faith is a characteristic of the holiness and this is why it is blind to many of the reasons in every day life

I think we've just entered the reign of piety and iron.

Piety requires us to renounce no ways of life where we can act reasonably, and offers what we do to the glory of God.

I would like to advise all the dear brothers and sisters and also myself to observe piety and virtue and to be watchful of ourselves in our words, deeds, thoughts and intentions.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, the tongue of a believer is at the back of his heart while the heart of a hypocrite is at the back of his tongue; because when a believer intends to say anything, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good, he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed. While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

Be happy, but be happy through piety.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Faith is never identical with piety.

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.