It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. — Sophie Swetchine 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
To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents...… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen 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
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation,… — Edward Gibbon 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
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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