Piety Quotes
187 quotes by 150 authors
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
— Abu Bakr
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Faith is never identical with piety.
— Karl Barth
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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
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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
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
— Horace
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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
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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
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
— Baruch Spinoza
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...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
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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
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
— H. L. Mencken
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Piety Quotes
150 authors contributed a total of 187 Piety Quotes, led by these top contributors: