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187 Piety quotes by 146 unique authors

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising… — Stephen Batchelor
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose… — Ayn Rand
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out… — Dan B. Allender
Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death,… — Johnny Cash
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. — Louisa May Alcott
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating… — Russell Brand
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is… — James Branch Cabell
It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can… — Carl Jung
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe… — David Hume
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish… — Craig Brown
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians… — Jodi Kantor
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. — John Denham
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. — King Hussein I
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but… — Samuel Horsley
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. — Aristotle
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor… — Edward Fitzgerald
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is… — Bible
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so… — William Godwin
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I would like to advise all the dear brothers and sisters and also myself to observe piety and virtue and to be watchful of ourselves… — Unknown Author
Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that… — Sorin Cerin
True knowledge is not measured in relationship to how much you memorize and then narrate, but rather, true knowledge is an expression of piety [protecting… — Babloo

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