Top 295 Piety Quotes & Sayings

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

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

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

When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

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

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

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

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

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

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

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

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

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

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

Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

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

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.

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

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Faith is never identical with piety.

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

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

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

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

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

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

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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

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

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

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.

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

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

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

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

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

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

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

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

Love is the piety of the affections.

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

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

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