Quotes About Piety

A hundred years or more of Christ-centered monastic piety have affected also the image of rulership. In fact, the unique Reichenau miniature is the most powerful pictorial display of what may be called "liturgical kingship" — a kingship centered in the God-man rather than in God the Father. As a result, the Reichenau artist ventured to transfer the Ottonian emperor also the God-man's "two natures in one person.

And thus, by the express appointment of the same God, two roots of blessing, the Roman Empire, and the doctrine of Christian piety, sprang up together for the benefit of men.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

I have a very deep religious belief.

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

I'm a very religious person.

I've always been a religious person.

I am a religious person.

Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.

The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply chase their own tails. By depriving revelation of all force and authority, they rob their so-called religion of every dignity. It becomes, in their hands, a mere romantic imposture, unsatisfying to the pious and unconvincing to the judicious.

The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. (c. 1625)

La oración no es un privilegio para el piadoso, ni tampoco el arte de unos pocos escogidos. La oración es simplemente una conversación sincera entre Dios y su hijo. Mi amigo, él quiere hablar contigo. Aun ahora, mientras lees estas palabras, él toca a la puerta. Ábrela. Dale la bienvenida. Y que comience la conversación.

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God's will just by breathing.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.