Quotes About Piety

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety.

And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.

Oh, do fuck off. You Muslims and your aversion to drink. Fucking slaughter the greater part of the Western fucking world in Allah's name, but someone wants to toast to your health and suddenly it's all piety, prayer, throw out the pork, and let's put draperies around the women.

The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge

El Anticristo puede nacer de la misma piedad, del excesivo amor por Dios o por la verdad, así como el hereje nace del santo y el endemoniado del vidente. Huye

The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer.

Antychryst mo?e zrodzi? siÄ™ z pobo?noÅ›ci, z nadmiernej miÅ'oÅ›ci do Boga lub prawdy, jak kacerz rodzi siÄ™ ze Å›wiÄ™tego, a opÄ™tany przez demona z jasnowidzÄ…cego. LÄ™kaj siÄ™, Adso, proroków i tych, którzy gotowi sÄ… umrze? za prawdÄ™, gdy? zwykle pociÄ…gajÄ… za sobÄ… Å›mier? licznych, czÄ™sto przed sobÄ…, czasem zamiast siebie.

In 1962, in spite of five-year plans and universal suffrage, and talk of socialism and the common man, I found that for most Indians Indian poverty was still a poetic concept, a prompting to piety and sweet melancholy, part of the country's uniqueness, its Gandhian non-materialism.

One does not cross-examine a saint.

The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.

A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.

Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearance of piety and honor, they are always to be seen through these veils.

Il n'y a qu'une tristesse, c'est de n'être pas des saints.

Existe una sola tristeza, la de no ser santos

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

To the contrary, he knew the ascetic beauty of such a way of being. He lived every moment mindful of the 613 commandments of the Torah. It was natural to him to separate the milk from the meat, to refrain from labor on the Sabbath, to abide by the laws of family purity in his relations with his wife. The disciplines of that monthly abstinence had only sharpened desire and sweetened their reunion. But to be without a wife entirely…that, to him, was no fit life for a man.