Quotes About Piety

If you are able to be good, be thankful to God.

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.

But my desire for knowledge was stronger than my religious sensibilities, which after all were more a matter of unthinking habit than real conviction.

Julius's successor, Leo X (1513–21), was more pious than his predecessors but no less convinced that the measure of papal greatness was an increase in papal lands and a sponsorship of the arts.

Consecration is going all in and all out for the All in All.

A God believed to be entangled in crucifixion is an antidote to pieties and theologies that seek their God high above the earth, away from and untouched by suffering peoples. The

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little. (The Women 4.142)

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

Let us act wisely, therefore, and in the fear of God.

If I were emperor, king, or prince in a campaign against the Turk, I would exhort my bishops and priests to stay at home and mind the duties of their office, praying, fasting, saying mass, preaching, and caring for the poor, as not only Holy Scripture, but their own canon law teaches and requires.