“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins 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
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
“Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.” — E.M. Bounds 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
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
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance. — Ibn Rajab Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it,… — Jonathan Swift 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
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi Copy Share Image
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