Action Quote by Samuel Johnson

Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering…

— Lucretius

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall gild its…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

— Zengzi

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

— Walter Savage Landor

“Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, with its scenery and props, of which every one…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Thus pride wears the mask of loftiness of spirit, although You alone, O God, are high over all. Ambition seeks honour and glory, although…

— Augustine of Hippo

“We seem especially susceptible to this pitting of spirituality against theology in American evangelical contexts. Perhaps we can chalk this up to the influence…

— Stephen J. Nichols

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

— Thomas Merton