Piety Quotes · Page 6

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

— Charles Wesley

However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling.

— Charles Simeon

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

— John Tillotson

“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.”

— E.M. Bounds

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

— Saint Augustine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

— Sophie Swetchine

“Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.”

— Plato

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she…

— James Russell Lowell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys;…

— James Branch Cabell

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own…

— George Santayana

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will…

— Matthew Henry

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety…

— Edward Young

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he…

— Alexander Pope

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human…

— Edward Gibbon

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not…

— William Law

“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own…

— William Law

Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object,…

— Thomas Guthrie

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.…

— Thomas Jefferson

The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of…

— Christopher Dawson

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,…

— Martin Luther

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of…

— V. S. Pritchett

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

— Abu Bakr

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and…

— Kato Kiyomasa

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

— Walter Savage Landor

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

— Ibn Rajab

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

— Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

— George Santayana

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

— E. M. Forster

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

— Zengzi

“I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.”

— Habeeb Akande

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

— Daniel Webster