Quotes About Piety

You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

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.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.

I liked him because, during my years as a journalist, i had discovered that a peck of delinquency is sometimes more worthy than a pitcher of piety.

True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Las iglesias con frecuencia eligen a un nuevo pastor en base a su personalidad, apariencia, o carisma, y no en los requisitos bíblicos de piedad, doctrina, y su habilidad de manejar la Palabra de Dios.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

The gods do not exists, and even if they exist they do not trouble themselves about people, and we have nothing in common with them. The piety and devotion to the gods that the majority of people invoke is a lie devised by swindlers and con men and, if you can believe it, by legislators, to keep criminals in line by putting the fear of God into them.

The upshot is that if you identify self-interest with piety, honesty, country, parents and friends, then they are all secure.