Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not… — William Law Copy Share Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous 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
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will… — Saint Basil 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
“The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.” — The Catholic Church 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
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot 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
“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence… — Louisa May Alcott 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
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
