A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. — Saint Augustine 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
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. — Walter Savage Landor 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
The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it… — John Ashcroft 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
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament &… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed… — George Washington 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
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds… — Meister Eckhart 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
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to… — Alain de Botton 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
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
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust. — Abu Nuwas Copy Share Image
“...it requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace...” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling. — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
“Well, their piety is more evolved,” said Mrs. Pace. “In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to… — Samuel Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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