Faces Quote by Tryon Edwards

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

— Richard M. Weaver

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the…

— Eugenie de Guerin

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

— John Tillotson

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

— Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists…

— Horace Bushnell

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

— Albert Einstein

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing,…

— Marilyn French

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel