Piety Quotes · Page 5

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

— Thomas Paine

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

— Mary Douglas

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

— Giambattista Vico

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

— Shannon L. Alder

A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.

— Joel Beeke

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line…

— Omar Khayyam

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Franz Grillparzer

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys;…

— James Branch Cabell

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it,…

— Jonathan Swift

“Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.”

— Michael Joseph Brown

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down…

— Peter Kreeft

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to…

— Jerry Pournelle

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the…

— Dylan Thomas

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time…

— William Blake

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand…

— George Washington

“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going…

— Nelson Algren

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have…

— Wilhelm II

Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity.…

— Charles Colson

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for…

— Benjamin Rush

“Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds…

— Meister Eckhart

“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy…

— Joan Didion

“The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.”

— The Catholic Church

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?”

— Robin LaFevers

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

— Austin O'Malley

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

— Seneca the Younger

“What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.”

— Igbinovia Ixrael Lee

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

— Horace

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

— E. M. Forster

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

— Zengzi

“I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.”

— Habeeb Akande

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

— Daniel Webster

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

— Jean-Baptiste de La Salle