Piety Quotes

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.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on.

Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

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.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service.

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited.

They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite;

yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you;

you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth.

Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else.

What counts is piety and faith.

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

I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned.

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

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.