Quotes About Piety

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

He preaches well that lives well.

In fact, what my fans shown towards me is devotion.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

Always very pious, these crooked accountants,' observed Cicero.)

also many of them were, to Augustus's way of thinking, excessively pious. Some kept no liquor in their houses at all, and, on several occasions when he had been invited in for a meal, the grace was said at such length that he had all but lost his appetite before anyone was allowed to eat.

Howard Ensign had joined the Congregational church after their revival and would testify at prayer meeting every Wednesday night. It seemed to me that the things between one and God should be between him and God like loving ones mother. One didn't go around saying, 'I love my mother, she has been so good to me.' One just loved her and did things that she liked one to do.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

In Jewish tradition, dying in one's sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

The true goal for man is to be what he does. The worth of a religion is the worth of the individuals living it. A mitsvah, therefore, is not mere doing but an act that embraces both the doer and the deed. The means may be external, but the end is personal. Your deeds be pure, so that ye shall be holy. A hero is he who is greater than his feats, and a pious man is he who is greater than his rituals. The deed is definite, yet the task is infinite.

Faith is vision, sensitivity and attachment to God; piety is an attempt to attain such sensitivity and attachment. The gates of faith are not ajar, but the mitsvah is a key. By living as Jews we may attain our faith as Jews. We do not have faith because of deeds; we may attain faith through sacred deeds. A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought.

In humility, there is faith. When there is faith, there is no fear.

Well, their piety is more evolved," said Mrs. Pace. "In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the smug. In France, it appears, there is a third type, the worldly.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.

To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.

All had suddenly lost their taste for vainglory and pride, they consigned these vices to the lowest circle of hell and would scarcely have believed even God had He assured them that just days before they themselves had ignominiously flaunted them; they were pious once more, wearing their meanest clothes and holding their old, despised rosaries in their hands, altogether convinced that they had always been like this, and if God Himself was not convinced, it was not for their want of trying.

There is no cruelty in regard for God's honour.

Why are pious people so rarely loyal

Plini de-ngâmfare, stârniÈ›i de mârÈ™av? neobr?zare, Asemenea câinilor f?r? ruÈ™ine, Nu vor s-aud? vocile zeilor.