Best Piety Quotations
187 Piety quotes by 146 unique authors
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We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering…
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of the Spirit. The…
— Christopher Dawson
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned…
— Jean Paul
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The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as…
— Simon Greenleaf
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These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to…
— Simon Greenleaf
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But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to…
— Simon Greenleaf
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The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting…
— Lech Walesa
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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
— Peter Kreeft
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The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this…
— Peter Kreeft
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The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there…
— Peter Kreeft
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Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
— Saint Augustine
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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
— Peter Kreeft
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Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy home is a…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
— Mary Douglas
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In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for…
— Charles Spurgeon
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...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were…
— John Cassian
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...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly…
— John Cassian
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Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
— Tom Robbins
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We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor…
— Charles Spurgeon
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As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not…
— Samuel
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The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and…
— Samuel
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In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
— Georges Duhamel
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
— Moliere
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God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
— R C Sproul
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