Pious Quotes

161 quotes by 145 authors

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
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
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
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
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
May is a pious fraud of the almanac. — James Russell Lowell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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