Piety Quotes

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.

[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.

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.

[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)

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

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.

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

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

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

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.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

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.

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

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

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.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

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.

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

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

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

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.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

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

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

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

Love is the piety of the affections.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.