Quotes About Piety

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

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.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

As many serve the Virgin as serve God.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

As for me and my family, we'll worship God.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

I believe in God, absolutely.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

To obey God is better than sacrifice.