Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even… — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and… — Ezekiel Hopkins Copy Share Image
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character;… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I would like to advise all the dear brothers and sisters and also myself to observe piety and virtue and to be… — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say:… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
“And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so… — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
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![“[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.” quote by Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb3/samuel-adams-3491_economy_t-he-importance-of-piety-and-religion-of_2727173.jpg)
![“[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)” quote by Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04b/stephen-batchelor-5328_antidote_mindfulness-is-not-concerned-with-anythi_151409.png)
![“Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.” quote by Scott Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af3/scott-simon-16252_charlie_everyone-understood-charlie-hebdo-as-peo_2039989.jpg)
