Pietism Quotes
- The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber
- Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all;… — William Stringfellow
- Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable… — Henri Nouwen
- There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism… — William Ernest Henley