Impiety Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
— John Lyly
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Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being…
— Hippolytus of Rome
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
— Plato
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Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my…
— Martin Luther
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When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is…
— George Washington
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These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid…
— Pope Leo XIII
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I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after…
— Vincent of Lerins
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As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished…
— Rod Dreher
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For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good"…
— Frank E. Gaebelein
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My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
— Herbert Spencer
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If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility…
— Louis Bourdaloue
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Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
— Frederick Douglass
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Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
— John Banville
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety
— Bertrand Russell
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Impiety, n.: Your irreverence toward my deity.
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Impiety Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Impiety Quotes as follows: