All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. — Herman Melville 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
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety. — John Wesley 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
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service… — Ben Lerner 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
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell 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
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Who here can never say they have committed murder, whether in the name of the God or otherwise?” I meet the High… — Sarah K.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own… — William Law Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.” — Simone Weil 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
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truthfirst. — Aristotle (384â322 BC 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
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
