If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Some people think they are always right; they are always ready to judge those who they see as wrong!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Dear pious fellow! Our greatest hope for you is that one day you will understand that you have no enemy other than… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case,… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“I'm not one of those pious types who spend their whole lives hunched on prayer rugs while their eyes and hearts remain… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
