Piety Quotes

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Great praxis demands great piety.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Be happy, but be happy through piety.

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat.,
Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

Piety softens all that courage bears.