Quotes About Piety

I abhor a piety which has no humanity with it and in it," he added. "God loves both piety and humanity."165

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.

Your will be done": Let these be the most profound and most exalted words of your life, in daily submission to the will of God.

I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.

As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages.

Nevertheless, secularity, like any good thing, can be overdone. In our zeal to laicize our piety, we shouldn't leave people guessing whether we're Christians. That would be every bit as unnatural as wearing a monk's habit over one's work clothes. Our secularity should never lapse into secularism.

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

Grant, Almighty God, since thou hast delivered to us a sure rule of worship, which cannot deceive us, and since thy Son became for us a perfect master of all wisdom and of solid piety, that we may obediently follow whatever he prescribes for us..."

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

call "piety" that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond him—they will never yield him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will   subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will   acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by   God.

PSALM 112    As the majority of mankind expect to prosper by evil deeds, and as they   generally endeavor to enrich themselves by plunder, fraud, and every   species of injustice, the prophet enumerates the blessings of God which   attend those who worship him in purity, in order that we may know that,   in aiming at a life of piety and morality, we shall not lose our   reward.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is   enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.

May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy name as to be partakers of that glory which has been acquired for us through the blood of thine only-begotten Son. Amen.

By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires.

But we ever find, that even those who have not been deficient in their zeal for piety, nor in reverence and sobriety in handling the mysteries of God, have by no means agreed among themselves on every point; for God hath never favored his servants with so great a benefit, that they were all endued with a full and perfect knowledge in every thing; and, no doubt, for this end — that he might first keep them humble; and secondly, render them disposed to cultivate brotherly intercourse.

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns,3 so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin,Before polygamy was made a sin.