“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.” — Shannon L. Alder 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
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
At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest. — Karl Barth 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
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
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
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know. — Mary Daly 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
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
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own… — William Law Copy Share Image
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
