Quotes About Piety

Guan Zhong explains (as the fourth-century-BC Guanzi attests) that management of water is the key to maintaining social order. There are 'five harmful influences' in nature, he says, including drought and pestilence – but floods are the worst. Uncontrolled water has a symbolic as well as a pragmatic impact: it leads to the breakdown of filial piety and disintegration of social relations.

The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not

my religion was but a fragrance.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Do not go to that place of horror with elevated spirits, and gay hearts, for death is there! Justice and judgment are there! The power of government, displayed in its most awful form, is there . . . The person who can go and look on death merely to gratify an idle humor is destitute both of humanity and piety.

descubrí cómo escritores prostituidos han extraviado al mundo hasta hacerle atribuir las mayores hazañas de la guerra a los cobardes, los más sabios consejos a los necios, sinceridad a los aduladores, virtud romana a los traidores a su país, piedad a los ateos, veracidad a los espías;

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.

Per il candore e la semplicità della sua vita, c'è chi lo giudica un angelo; è una pietosa esagerazione, poiché non c'è uomo che sia esente da colpa.

he affected great piety (as became a pilgrim), although unable to read the inspired words of the Prophet.

Il vaut mieux chanter en pensant à Dieu que réciter le Coran en pensant à autre chose.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

God helps those who fear Him.

Ksi?dz (wstrzymuje) Co to ma znaczy??...szalony! czy mo?na? Odbierzcie mu ?elazo, rozdejmijcie pi??cie. Jeste? ty chrze?cijanin? taka my?l bezbo?na! Znasz ty Ewangelij?? Pustelnik A znasz ty nieszcz??cie?

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth, while being completely devoted to the will of God, was far from being a timidly submissive woman or one whose piety was repellent to others. On the contrary, she was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and the oppressed and removes the powerful people of this world from their privileged positions. (Marialis Cultus)

Have no dealings with monks and priests.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

It is impossible to have the Reformation without orthodoxy, "if only because the intention to identify, present, and preserve Christian orthodoxy in and for the church lay at the very heart of the Reformation. The Reformation without orthodoxy is not the Reformation . . . the severing of piety from scholasticism is also untrue to the historical case.

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not. Its sources, spirit, and methods are alien to Reformed theology, piety, and practice.

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not. Its sources, spirit, and methods are alien to Reformed theology, piety, and practice. There

Too often, however, we "honor" God by creating our own law, making ourselves more pious than Him. God says, "Don't eat," and we say, "Don't touch." God says, "Give ten percent," and we say, "Give twenty percent." Like the Pharisees before us, we add to God's law, then expect Him to pat us on the back. This problem of seeking a piety greater than God's, however, gets no uglier than when we apply it to ourselves.

Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike—the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests—were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love—

To the Goddess? Then I cannot blame him. For a man loses his humanity when it concerns his gods.