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
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. — Mary Douglas 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
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament &… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi 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
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not… — John Cassian 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
The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing 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
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
