Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in),… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though… — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
