Quotes About Piety

The logical tendency of modernity, in its dominant liberal form, is to look on love as at best a matter of piety or good will, and not as the very stuff that makes our lives and the things of the world real, the basic order of our lives and of all things.

Fear God and work hard.

Faith is taking God seriously.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.

Put God first in everything you do.

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

There is no dallying with God .

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

You must have faith in God.

Religion is the pious worship of God.