We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to… — Samuel Copy Share Image
The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
“I know many who fast, pray, sigh, and demonstrate every manner of piety, so long as it costs them nothing, yet would… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women.… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks… — Bono Copy Share Image
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul,… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
“And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so… — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human… — D. A. Carson 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
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety… — Jia Qinglin Copy Share Image
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents:… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition) 1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
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