“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“My parents spoke of piety, of love, and of humility. I have really tried hard. But as long as there was a… — Ingmar Bergman 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
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel Copy Share Image
“Ida Rhew was bending low, pulling a pan of rolls from the oven. God, sang a cracking Negro voice from the transistor… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“The Curé Noive had a sister who acted as his housekeeper, a lady with a moustache, whose piety was astringent, and who… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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