Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and… — Henry VIII of England 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
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
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must… — Charles Spurgeon 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
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith. — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal 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
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
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,… — Johnny Cash 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
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
Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary — Pope Francis 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
Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
