Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and… — Ezekiel Hopkins Copy Share Image
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even… — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There seems no reason for describing as hypocritical the short-lived piety of those whose religion fades away once they have emerged from… — C. S. LEWIS Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private.… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character;… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
“The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth, while being completely devoted to the will of God, was… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
