Piety Quotes · Page 5

“Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.”

— Raheel Farooq

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

— Herman Melville

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

— Baruch Spinoza

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

— Aristotle

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

— Karl Barth

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

— Jonathan Edwards

“Call it pious, but whether unified or divided, the civilized will try to live worlds apart from violence.”

— Criss Jami

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not…

— Alan Dundes

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the…

— Gouverneur Morris

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;…

— Confucius

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid…

— Sam Storms

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,…

— Alexander Pope

There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of…

— Mona Charen

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must…

— Charles Spurgeon

“The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify…

— John Donne

For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been…

— Emmett Tyrrell

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does…

— C. Wright Mills

One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,…

— Susan Sontag

“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;…

— Simon Greenleaf

“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue…

— Larry Fort

“gratitude noun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your…

— Shannon L. Alder

“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

— Richard Hofstadter

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

— Michel de Montaigne

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

— E. M. Forster

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

— Edith Sitwell

“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”

— Bob Shacochis

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

— King Hussein I

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

— Georges Duhamel

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you

— Julius Caesar

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

— Martin Luther

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

— Lord Acton

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

— Archibald MacLeish

“...it requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace...”

— Sarah Vowell

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

— John Denham

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

— Abu Nuwas

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

— John Dryden