If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We need to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what… — Donald Trump 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
“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Here was my mother, one of the Top Five pious women of the district, coming out with the unbelievable "God's great and… — Anna Burns Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures.… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames 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
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
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
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
“Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, with its scenery and props, of which… — Georges Rodenbach 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
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
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the… — Kevin DeYoung 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
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
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