Quotes About Piety

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Faith in faith is faith astray.

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

I take my faith seriously.

The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful

Its king, Peleus, was one of those men whom the gods love: not divine himself, but clever, brave, handsome, and excelling all his peers in piety.

Das rechte Gebet ist nicht ein Werk, eine Ãœbung, eine fromme Haltung, sondern es ist die Bitte des Kindes zum Herzen des Vaters. Darum ist das Gebet niemals demonstrativ, weder vor Gott, noch vor uns selbst, noch vor anderen.

Boniface urged the king to destroy the graven images he and his people were currently worshipping.

Le sacrilège, la seule manière que les impies ont encore d'être dévots.

Aunt Léonie who, after the death of her husband, my Uncle Octave, no longer wished to leave, first Combray, then within Combray her house, then her bedroom, then her bed and no longer 'came down', always lying in an uncertain state of grief, physical debility, illness, obsession and piety.

It is not to learn the form of the doctrine of godliness, but to get the power of it implanted in our souls.

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in. silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in silently and grayly, with its head bowed and its face covered.

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in silently and grayly, with its head bowed and its face covered. You