Top 286 Pious Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

I am not a pious character who never makes mistakes.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

Atheists are pious people.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?

In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.

I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.

What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow paradise where we can massage away the heat of the day, the questions of the time, the injustice of the age, and live like pious moles in the heart of a twisted world. Or, we can gather our strength - our spiritual strength - for the struggle it will take to wake up from this pious sleep.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.