Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,… — Alexander Pope 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
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she… — James Russell Lowell 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
“gratitude noun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own… — William Law Copy Share Image
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object,… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
