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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.
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.
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.
Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
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
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
[Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.
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.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
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.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
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.
beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)
I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
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.
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.
I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.
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.
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.