Quotes About Piety

Others spoke piously since, being old, they could follow no course but virtue.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself. All men need the gods...

she described in a separate paragraph the Haredi community, and how within it religious practice was a total way of life. The distinction between what was rendered to Caesar and what to God was meaningless, much as it was for observant Muslims.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

All gods have their Chosen Ones, who through devotion and piety believe themselves impervious to divine plague or curse.

Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est: aliis rebus pietatem colas. Be just, unless a kingdom tempts to break the laws, For sovereign power alone can justify the cause.

No believer is a bad believer.

At the gun shop, AK-47s were stacked six high on the shelves … The day after the West invaded Afghanistan, a 'piety discount' was introduced for those who wished to buy the weapon to go the jihad.

Mucho ir a misa, pero a nuestro señor Jesucristo aquí no le hace caso ni Dios

The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.

I tremble when I think that God is just.

He [Rabbi Menasha Levaartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

Piety is the privatization of the world as the story of one's self and one's salvation, and without the, yes, sometimes offensive conviction that one is the object of God's special, and indeed exclusive care, without the rearrangement that places oneself and one's salvation at the center of all things, there is no piety—that is, in fact, what defines this very powerful virtue.

It often happens, as a matter of fact, that so called "pious souls" take their "spiritual life" with a wrong kind of seriousness.

My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.

The Bible—and human life itself—is full of evidence that religion itself can become an idol: what the sentimental call the love of God is nothing if it is short-circuited into private piety or religious self-righteousness and doesn't translate into compassion for others.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.

it is the nature of religions to put a higher premium on your proper attention to ritual than on your convenience.

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics—Loyalty being the other.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.