Piety Quotes

187 quotes by 150 authors

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
Faith is never identical with piety. — Karl Barth
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It… — Bono
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to… — Alain de Botton
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety… — D. A. Carson
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children… — Henry Ward Beecher
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a… — Sam Manekshaw
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without… — Paul of the Cross
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that… — Johannes Kepler
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — H. L. Mencken
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from… — Matthew Henry
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief… — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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