Quotes About Piety

There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

I have read true piety defined as: loving one's destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of "religiousness" is the condition for real happiness.

Good, but not religious-good.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as a proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit. In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?

Roy Moore is a man of faith.

As one Saudi professor sternly tells his co-religionists, "Only the writings of a practising Muslim are worthy of our attention.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all else, and showed little patience for what he called "Priest craft" and "superstition.

Theirs was, rather, a more narrowly focused life, anchored in and structured by Franciscan piety and the immediate challenges of missionary life. Some of these missionaries were, by the standards of any age, admirable men. Others were narrow-minded, even bigoted, regarding Native Americans as little more than children. All of them were leading lonely, isolated lives in a frequently forgotten place.

The Messenger of God, bpuh, said: 'A Muslim is a Muslim's brother; he does not wrong him, nor desert him, nor looks down upon him. Remember, piety lies here! (And he pointed his finger to his heart three times.) To belittle one's Muslim brother [in thoughts or treatment] is enough of evil for a person to do.' (Muslim: Abu Hurayrah)

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

I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.

Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating

A true knight is cleanly as well as godly.

Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

He is an intellectual who is unbeholden to the shibboleths of the professoriat and who has a deep appreciation for untutored popular piety.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?