Quotes About Pietistic

Augustine's pietistic, confessional stream of discourse also broke with the tradition of Western thought by reconfiguring the idea of the soul, not only as rational "essence" but also as "the mysterious and unknown realms of [the] inner world that were no less hidden . . . than the distant realms of the outer world

For, after all, what is sin? It is common sense. It is reality. In truth, it is the only reality in the world, and everything else is confusion, lies, hypocrisy, sentimentality, pietistic falsehood and delusion. I suggest that you once came to this conclusion, yourself.

In Norway the revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771–1824) restored a pietistic presence to the Lutheran state church.