The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal 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
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. — Daisy Ashford Copy Share Image
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral,… — Rebecca MacKinnon 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
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
The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings… — Caspar David Friedrich 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
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only… — Graham Greene 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 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
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
No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something… — George Weigel 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
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions… — William Winwood Reade 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
“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
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