Piety Quotes

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.

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

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.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

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.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

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

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.

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

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.

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

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?

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

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.

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

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

[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.

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

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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