Quotes about Piety

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. Votes: 5

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given. Votes: 4

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper. Votes: 4

Faith is never identical with piety. Votes: 3

Piety softens all that courage bears. Votes: 3

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy. Votes: 3

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense. Votes: 3

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Votes: 3

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. Votes: 3

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. Votes: 3

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Votes: 3

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. Votes: 3

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one. Votes: 3

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] Votes: 3

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. Votes: 3

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them. Votes: 3

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people. Votes: 3

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. Votes: 3

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. Votes: 3

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. Votes: 3

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. Votes: 3

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. Votes: 3

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Votes: 3

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed. Votes: 3

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security. Votes: 3

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place. Votes: 3

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego. Votes: 3

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune. Votes: 3

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world. Votes: 3

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish. Votes: 3

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. Votes: 3

Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide. Votes: 3

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. Votes: 3

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with. Votes: 3

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Votes: 3

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs. Votes: 3

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites. Votes: 3

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' Votes: 3

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. Votes: 3

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever. Votes: 3

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face. Votes: 3

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. Votes: 2

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. Votes: 2

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. Votes: 2

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. Votes: 2

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. Votes: 2

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. Votes: 2

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams. Votes: 2

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other. Votes: 2

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy. Votes: 2

Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer. Votes: 2

I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protect which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor. Votes: 2

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are. Votes: 2

Oaths are the fossils of piety. Votes: 1

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. Votes: 1

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. Votes: 1

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. Votes: 1

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. Votes: 1

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. Votes: 1

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. Votes: 1

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. Votes: 1

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people. Votes: 1

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety. Votes: 1

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years. Votes: 1

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety. Votes: 1

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. Votes: 1

Great praxis demands great piety. Votes: 0

Questioning is the piety of thought. Votes: 0

Love is the piety of the affections. Votes: 0

The weaker sex, to piety more prone. Votes: 0

Be happy, but be happy through piety. Votes: 0

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety. Votes: 0

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace. Votes: 0

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it. Votes: 0

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. Votes: 0

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. Votes: 0

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way. Votes: 0

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. Votes: 0

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. Votes: 0

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. Votes: 0

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety. Votes: 0

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety. Votes: 0

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. Votes: 0

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. Votes: 0

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. Votes: 0

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety. Votes: 0

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. Votes: 0

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. Votes: 0

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. Votes: 0

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. Votes: 0

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste. Votes: 0

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister: Votes: 0

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind. Votes: 0

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. Votes: 0

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit. Votes: 0

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite. Votes: 0

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. Votes: 0

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. Votes: 0

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. Votes: 0

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety. Votes: 0

A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith. Votes: 0

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. Votes: 0

However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling. Votes: 0

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. Votes: 0

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. Votes: 0

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. Votes: 0

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites. Votes: 0

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. Votes: 0

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. Votes: 0

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. Votes: 0

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. Votes: 0

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. Votes: 0

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. Votes: 0

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. Votes: 0

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Votes: 0

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. Votes: 0

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. Votes: 0

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. Votes: 0

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. Votes: 0

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. Votes: 0

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. Votes: 0

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. Votes: 0

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. Votes: 0

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Votes: 0

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. Votes: 0

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel. Votes: 0

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. Votes: 0

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary Votes: 0

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line. Votes: 0

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. Votes: 0

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust. Votes: 0

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires. Votes: 0

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished? Votes: 0

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness. Votes: 0

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. Votes: 0

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness. Votes: 0

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed. Votes: 0

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent. Votes: 0

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth. Votes: 0

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. Votes: 0

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace. Votes: 0

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. Votes: 0

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love. Votes: 0

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. Votes: 0

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance. Votes: 0

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. Votes: 0

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death! Votes: 0

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin. Votes: 0

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew. Votes: 0

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care. Votes: 0

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family. Votes: 0

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. Votes: 0

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying. Votes: 0

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. Votes: 0

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. Votes: 0

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long. Votes: 0

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. Votes: 0

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm. Votes: 0

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion. Votes: 0

The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd. Votes: 0

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130) Votes: 0

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them. Votes: 0

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick. Votes: 0

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement Votes: 0

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety. Votes: 0

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming. Votes: 0

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself. Votes: 0

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city. Votes: 0

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it. Votes: 0

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries. Votes: 0

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern. Votes: 0

[W]hoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven. Votes: 0

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life. Votes: 0

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge. Votes: 0

If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends. Votes: 0