Pious Quotes

161 quotes by 145 authors

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… — John Stott
The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect. — Porphyry
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet. — Brennan Manning
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations… — Christopher Ricks
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of… — Norman Borlaug
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious. — Julius Evola
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. — Anton Chekhov
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. — William M. Evarts
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.... — Billy Sunday
Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist. — Simon Conway Morris
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence… — Rich Mullins
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. — Georg Hermes
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse… — Margaret Culkin Banning
Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy… — Julius Wellhausen
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with… — Helen Keller
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious… — Rajneesh
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I… — Thomas Jefferson
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no,… — Thomas Carlyle
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it;… — Chanakya
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though Iâ€™m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be)… — Abdullah ibn Mubarak

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