Pious Quotes

Pious Quote of the day

The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

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

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.