Quotes About Piety

Nietzsche remained pious and puritan, chaste as a statue, to the last: therefore his assault on Puritanism and piety. How he longed to be a sinner, this incorrigible saint!

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

Come on now," Vardy said. "You can have faith in anything," Vardy said. "Everything's fit to be worshipped.

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

He had drawn up a carved, velvet chair and was resting his left hand on its back, holding a candle, and using his right hand to cross himself, rolling his eyes upwards every time he put his fingers to his forehead. His face conveyed a gentle piety and resignation to the will of God. 'If you cannot understand feelings like these,' his face seemed to say, 'that's too bad for you.

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME

I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

It should not be thought, moreover, that this manner of thinking is peculiar to Catholics; it is that of every dogmatic religion in which belief is made into the essential thing rather than deeds.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

We are to live with heavenly things in mind and with our feet firmly on the ground. We won't be redemptive forces for good if we don't grasp this, and our spiritual growth will be truncated. Personal piety alone won't cut it, but marry piety to shrewdness, as Jesus did, and you're on your way, Good Guy.

Mark said, "It's simple, really. Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

You'd think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.

You'd think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus

Sin el conocimiento de Dios por parte de quienes adoran, sin una fe activa, sin reverencia, sin gratitud en el adorador, incluso las mejores formas de adoración simplemente caen por su propio peso.

For one, the college itself turned out to have a lot of moral hypocrisy about it, e.g., congratulating itself on its diversity and the leftist piety of its politics while in reality going about the business of preparing elite kids to enter elite professions and make a great deal of money, thus increasing the pool of prosperous alumni donors. Without anyone ever discussing it or even allowing themselves to be aware of it, the college was a veritable temple of Mammon.

If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to his Glory.

the reason why you see no real mortification or self-denial, no eminent charity, no profound humility, no heavenly affection, no true contempt of the world, no Christian meekness, no sincere zeal, no eminent piety in the common lives of Christians, is this, because they do not so much as intend to be exact and exemplary in these virtues.