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
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
“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
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
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung 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
Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures.… — Leonard Bernstein 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
“The Curé Noive had a sister who acted as his housekeeper, a lady with a moustache, whose piety was astringent, and who… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to… — Dan B. Allender 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
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
“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
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
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,… — Johnny Cash 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
“The saying goes, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness", which is true across all religions. But there is one thing more dear and… — Darwies Soeker Copy Share Image
“Can you bow before the Crucified in loving homage, and not wish to see your Monarch master of the world? Out on… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety,… — John Calvin 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
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
“Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, with its scenery and props, of which… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan 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
