Pious Quotes

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

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

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

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.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

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

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

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.