Pious Quotes

161 quotes by 145 authors

Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured,… — Saint John Chrysostom
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations;… — Malik ibn Anas
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty… — Rumi
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been… — James Madison
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated — Ibn Taymiyyah
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, — Christopher Hitchens
Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something itâ€™s not meant to be, isnâ€™t a pious act… — Peter Enns
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as… — James Madison
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? — Maurice Samuel
These are called the pious frauds of friendship. — Henry Fielding
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but… — Anne Bradstreet
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — Gautama Buddha
The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or… — Plato
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson

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