The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.” — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.” — Michael Joseph Brown Copy Share Image
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane,… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue… — Larry Fort Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — C. Wright Mills 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
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All… — David Swing Copy Share Image
“My parents spoke of piety, of love, and of humility. I have really tried hard. But as long as there was a… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
