Quotes About Piety

Just as in San Antonio Greene distrusted the comforts of America, in Mexico he sees piety as a distraction from human reality. The once-pampered priest understands himself more as his clerical garments wear out and his shoes lose their soles so that his feet are exposed to dirt, stones, and snakes.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Men of God are always men of prayer.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.