Piety Quotes

But all things should be done decently and in order

— 1 Corinthians 14:40

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

— Abraham Lincoln

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

— Samuel Richardson

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

— Elbert Hubbard

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

— Moliere

“A righteous wife is a respectful wife.”

— Habeeb Akande

A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.

— Joel Beeke

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line…

— Omar Khayyam

“The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.”

— The Catholic Church

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

— Peter Kreeft

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

— Franz Grillparzer

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

— Christopher Hitchens

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Catholics everywhere squirm at the ostentatious piety of Pelosi and her fellow apostate Joe Biden. If they must sin, can they at…

— Miranda Devine

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with…

— Tryon Edwards

“The frequent claims that empty churches and low levels of religious activity in Europe today reflect a steep decline in piety are…

— Rodney Stark

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

— John Ridley

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

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is…

— Anonymous

One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively…

— Kato Kiyomasa

“We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter…

— N.T. Wright

To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from…

— Simon Schama

“Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom, and it will be a hundred times better for everyone. Give up kindness, renounce morality, and men…

— Tao Te Ching

I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two…

— Theodore Dalrymple

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a…

— Sam Manekshaw

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My parents spoke of piety, of love, and of humility. I have really tried hard. But as long as there was a…

— Ingmar Bergman

“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life…

— Shannon L. Alder

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,…

— Samuel Johnson

It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All…

— David Swing

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is…

— Martin Buber

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently…

— Russell Brand

“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine…

— Robert Farrar Capon