God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect. — Porphyry Copy Share Image
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. — Daisy Ashford Copy Share Image
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters,… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it. — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image