A Quote by Karl Barth

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

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Faith Identical Never Piety

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Karl Barth
Swiss - Theologian
May 10, 1886 - December 10, 1968

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

Karl Barth

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

E. M. Forster

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

John Ashcroft

One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.

Thomas Aquinas

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Archibald MacLeish

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

Baruch Spinoza

A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.

Joel Beeke

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

Lord Acton

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Hussein of Jordan

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

Henry David Thoreau

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Thomas Aquinas

The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven