Quotes About Piety

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

There is an inborn urge in each person to worship. If we don't worship God we will find something else to worship, whether it be a job, a family, money, a sport, or even ourselves.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

she turned religious. How could she help it? No one can help it in the wilds; life there is not all earthly toil and worldliness; there is piety and the fear of death and rich superstition.

To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.

It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

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

Religion is using everything for God.

We are religious by nature.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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

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

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.