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 bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and… — Mark Twain 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
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. — Sophie Swetchine 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
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
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
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
The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious… — John Milton 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
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the… — Penn Jillette 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
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own… — William Law Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you know just what it means to pious?" "Goin' to church, and readin' the Bible, and sayin' prayers and… — Louisa May Alcott 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
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth.… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
