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
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted.… — Thomas Goodwin 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
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious… — Billy Sunday 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
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated — Ibn Taymiyyah 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
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter! — Robert Charles Wilson 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
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
