Quotes About Piety

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.

a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.

They are not the vanguard for a new age of piety, but reactionaries, who hope that if they indoctrinate and intimidate they can block out modernity. Their desires mock their hopes. The rifles they fire, the nuclear weapons they crave come from a technology that has no connection to their sacred texts.

I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin—we don't have to do it to know about it.

Et pater Anchises passis de litore palmis numina magna vocat, meritosque indicit honores: 'Di, prohibete minas; di, talem avertite casum, et placidi servate pios!

Hic pietatis honos?

the quantity of references to the Spirit in the Qumran texts reflects an intense piety and likely the cultivation of religious experiences in which divine blessings of the last days were believed to be already bestowed (corporate worship being a prime setting for such experiences).

Me producen escalofríos los que se arrodillan y besan el suelo, los que se flajelan, los que se arrastran y se sacrifican por el Señor y veneran a sus santos y sus ángeles.

Me producen escalofríos los que se arrodillan y besan el suelo, los que se flagelan, los que se arrastran y se sacrifican por el Señor y veneran a sus santos y sus ángeles.

in the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful

She daydreamed and made up stories in her head, and the cloister and solitude of the pieta suited her.

Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.

Escoja responder a la vida como Jesús respondió. Proteja su vida de oración. Proteja su vida de pensamiento. Busque a Dios y a todo lo piadoso. La Palabra de Dios promete que si llena su mente con aquello en que hay virtud y es digno de alabar, «el Dios de paz estará con usted» (Filipenses 4.9).

Oaths are the fossils of piety. The geologist recognizes in them the relics of a once active devotion, but they are now only counters and pebbles tossed about in the unconscious play of expression. The lighter and more constant their use, the less their meaning.

Whenever there was an upheaval in some foreign land, there would be a procession of refugees from that land filing through Emmanuel's pulpit, with quivers full of piety, singing ballads of a sad and lowering sort like 'Russia, Holy Russia, I will die to set you free', and telling a sackful of stories about their narrow escape from the grip of the half-dozen or so godless persecutors who were at the bottom of all this trouble.

Hypocrites are very much strangers to the delights and pleasures of religion. And they are altogether so, for it is a joy which they do not intermeddle with. Counterfeit piety can never bring true pleasure. He that acts a part upon a stage, though it may be the part of one that is ever so pleasant, though he may exhibit the pleasantness well, yet he does not experience it. The pleasures of God's house do not lie in the outer courts, but within the veil.

You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.

Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.