On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart. — Sophie Swetchine 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
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the… — John Calvin 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
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
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag 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
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
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports… — Malik ibn Anas Copy Share Image
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional… — Thomas Merton 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
“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife — Boonaa Mohammed 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
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
