Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“Call it pious, but whether unified or divided, the civilized will try to live worlds apart from violence.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that… — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel Copy Share Image
“Ida Rhew was bending low, pulling a pan of rolls from the oven. God, sang a cracking Negro voice from the transistor… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Who here can never say they have committed murder, whether in the name of the God or otherwise?” I meet the High… — Sarah K.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
