No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover,… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition) 1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It… — Shannon L. Alder 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
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel,… — Anne Bradstreet 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
“Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be… — Anonymous 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
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain 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
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
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.… — Samuel Johnson 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
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern… — James Russell Lowell 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
