Piety Quotes · Page 4

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

— Austin O'Malley

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

— Horace

“What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.”

— Igbinovia Ixrael Lee

“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.”

— Philo of Alexandria

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

— Zengzi

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

— George Santayana

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

— Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to…

— Jerry Pournelle

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time…

— William Blake

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You…

— Oliver D. Crisp

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the…

— John Angell James

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros…

— John Ridley

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a…

— George Weigel

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with…

— Blaise Pascal

“gratitude noun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going…

— Nelson Algren

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have…

— Wilhelm II

Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity.…

— Charles Colson

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

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed…

— George Washington

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it…

— William Wordsworth

I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but…

— Anonymous

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

— Joseph Story

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

— Lucretius

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

— Francois Fenelon

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

— Abu Bakr

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

— Saint Augustine

“Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.”

— Plato

“Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.”

— E.M. Bounds

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

— Ibn Rajab

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

“...it requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace...”

— Sarah Vowell

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

— King Hussein I