2.
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
E. M. Forster
3.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
Karl Barth
6.
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Franz Grillparzer
7.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
St. Jerome
9.
Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.
Charles Wesley
10.
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
John Tillotson
11.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster
16.
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
Jonathan Edwards
19.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Hermann Hesse
23.
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
[Lat.,
Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
24.
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
Sophie Swetchine
25.
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
Aleister Crowley