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Piety Quotes by Fisher Ames
- The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
- We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to…
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- 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… — Unknown Author
- We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start 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.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Sam Manekshaw