Piety Quotes · Page 6

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

— George Santayana

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

— Blaise Pascal

“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.”

— Philo of Alexandria

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

— Mary Daly

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

— Francois Fenelon

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

— Joseph Story

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You…

— Oliver D. Crisp

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the…

— John Angell James

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…

— Fisher Ames

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and…

— Henry VIII of England

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with…

— Blaise Pascal

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a…

— George Weigel

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the…

— Robert M. Price

...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not…

— John Cassian

Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to…

— Alain de Botton

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety,…

— Denis Diderot

Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.…

— William Morley Punshon

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed…

— George Washington

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

— Lucretius

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

— Saint Augustine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

— Sophie Swetchine

“Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.”

— Plato

“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.”

— E.M. Bounds

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

— Abu Bakr

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and…

— Kato Kiyomasa

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

— Walter Savage Landor

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

— Ibn Rajab

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

— Lord Acton