Impious Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death,…
— Saint Basil
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
— Aeschylus
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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures…
— Robert Boyle
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How…
— Ibn Hazm
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the…
— Tertullian
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Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them…
— Baruch Spinoza
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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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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer…
— Eliphas Levi
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Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them.…
— Pope Leo XIII
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The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every…
— Noah Webster
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
— C.S. Lewis
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The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials…
— Conrad Black
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
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Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory…
— Richard M. Weaver
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God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious,…
— John Climacus
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