“...it requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace...” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust. — Abu Nuwas Copy Share Image
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Catholics everywhere squirm at the ostentatious piety of Pelosi and her fellow apostate Joe Biden. If they must sin, can they at… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“The frequent claims that empty churches and low levels of religious activity in Europe today reflect a steep decline in piety are… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively… — Kato Kiyomasa Copy Share Image
“We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
“Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom, and it will be a hundred times better for everyone. Give up kindness, renounce morality, and men… — Tao Te Ching Copy Share Image
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling. — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament &… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“Well, their piety is more evolved,” said Mrs. Pace. “In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
