Pious Quotes

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'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother… — John of Kronstadt
Liszt commenting on the music of FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication… — Frederic Chopin
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons. — Vincent de Paul
The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the… — Michael Horton
E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for… — Frederick Douglass
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.… — Ramakrishna
Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife — Boonaa Mohammed
This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles us. Mary remains… — Pope Paul VI
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. — Herbert Spencer
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the… — Ramakrishna
It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in… — Newt Gingrich
The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast… — Vance Havner
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this… — Johannes Tauler
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious… — Richard Rohr
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me. — Simon Callow
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… — Mark Twain

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