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Pious Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue
- It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused… — Conrad Black
- In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object… — Henri Frederic Amiel