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
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling. — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truthfirst. — Aristotle (384â322 BC Copy Share Image
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“True and genuine piety is necessary as the first indispensable requisite; whatever "call" a man may pretend to have, if he has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he… — Jo Walton 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
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
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
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
“The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify… — John Donne 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
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
We need to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give… — Gerhard O. Forde Copy Share Image
“It is a delightful thing to write, to cease to be oneself, to flow through the whole creation of which one speaks.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
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