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Quotes About Impious

Our one true God dwelled inside the Holy of Holies in the Temple at Jerusalem, and I was sure it was impious to speak of a similar place existing inside humans, and worse still to suggest that yearnings inside girls like me had intimations of divinity. It was the most beautiful, wicked blasphemy I'd ever heard.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Moreover, against those magic arts, concerning which some men, exceedingly wretched and exceedingly impious, delight to boast, may not public opinion itself be brought forward as a witness? For why are those arts so severely punished by the laws, if they are the works of deities who ought to be worshipped?
~ St. Augustine
But he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me! I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it.
~ Herman Melville
I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut.
~ Herman Melville
I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as C(aesar) did, and once the Rubicon is crossed, there can be no turning back (Meto, Caesar's scribe, to his father Gordianus the Finder)
~ Steven Saylor
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Starbuck is tormented by his complicity in what he foresees as Ahab's "impious end, but feel that I must help him to it." "But he drilled deep down," Starbuck exclaims, "and blasted all my reason out of me!"53 Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages
~ Chris Hedges
195 This same axiom with its preceding postulate should make it clear to us that for a long period of time the impious races of the three children of Noah, having lapsed into a state of bestiality, went wandering like wild beasts until they were scattered and dispersed through the great forest of the earth, and that with their bestial education giants had sprung up and existed among them at the time when the heavens thundered for the first time after the flood [369ff].
~ Giambattista Vico
En horas de profunda impiedad, planeamos la aniquilación del género humano, lo más miserable que hemos urdido se acomoda a su devoción.
~ Goethe
How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust.
~ Thomas Paine
Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honors to their deceased kings, and the christian world hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!
~ Thomas Paine
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
~ Aeschylus
Add in the fantasy mindset. Don't forget "Insh'allah", (which is like "mañana," but without the sense of urgency) which makes it somewhat impious to train really well since it is all the will of God anyway. Add in a set of social values that despise and loathe doing physical labor.
~ Unknown
En aquello que los hombres toman por misterios sagrados se inician impíamente
~ Heraclitus
with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •
~ Philip Pullman
Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth.
~ Plato
Then I showed again, not in words but in action, that, if it were not rather vulgar to [d]say so, death is something I couldn't care less about, but that my whole concern is not to do anything unjust or impious.
~ Plato
Expressed in Latin, it would have read Exi, impie, exi, scelerate, exi cum omnia fallacia tua, which translates into English as "Depart, impious one, depart, accursed one, depart with all your deceits.
~ Dean Koontz
Una evidencia es que vivía entre hombres impíos "viendo y oyendo los hechos inicuos de ellos" y la maldad a su alrededor (2 P. 2:8) y, aun así, él mismo no era impío.
~ J.C. Ryle
Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race!
~ John Keats
with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud
~ John Milton
It is a fact verified and recorded in many histories that soul capable of the greatest good is also capable of the greatest evil. Who is there more impious than backsliding priest? Who more carnal than a recent virgin? This, however, may be a matter of appearance.
~ John Steinbeck
To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.
~ Martin Luther
What can it profit the soul that the body should be in good condition, free, and full of life; that it should eat, drink, and act according to its pleasure; when even the most impious slaves of every kind of vice are prosperous in these matters?
~ Martin Luther