Pious Quotes
161 quotes by 145 authors
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot…
— Conrad Black
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
— Lionel Blue
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
— James Russell Lowell
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We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking…
— Oswald Chambers
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by…
— Martin Chemnitz
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and…
— Oswald Chambers
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days…
— Mark Twain
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion…
— Muhammad Yunus
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
— Bertrand Russell
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their…
— Hugh Nibley
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.…
— Dan Barker
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The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the sky, born at…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.
— Rajneesh
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People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
— Friedrich Engels
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