Piety Quotes

Piety Quote of the day

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

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.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

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 happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Be happy, but be happy through piety.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

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

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

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

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

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.