Pious Quotes

161 quotes by 145 authors

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act… — Martin Buber
The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and… — Russell L. Ackoff
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands,… — Charles Spurgeon
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty… — Russell Kirk
Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No,… — Emile Zola
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. — Daisy Ashford
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or… — Hu Shih
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts. — St. Jerome
One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort. — Ibn Hazm
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated… — Soren Kierkegaard
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that… — Columba Marmion
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. — Jean de la Bruyere
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious,… — John Climacus
Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in the Holy Spirit… — John of Kronstadt

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