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Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. — Aristotle.

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

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them. — Plato

It requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace ... — Sarah Vowell

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

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously. — Michael Joseph Brown

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires. — Edward Young

Be happy, but be happy through piety. — Madame De Stael

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other. — Inazo Nitobe

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. — E. M. Forster

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

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. — Ambrose Bierce

Piety and pity were a little to close to each other for my tastes. — Jodi Picoult

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. — John Wesley

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it. — Austin O'Malley

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames

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

Piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way. — Rita Mae Brown

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense. — Elbert Hubbard

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. — Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary — Pope Francis

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Oaths are the fossils of piety. — George Santayana

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. — Horace

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven. — St. Jerome

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

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister: — David Brooks

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

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. — George Washington

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. — John Tillotson

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line. — Omar Khayyam

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. — Daniel Webster

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain. — Frank McCourt

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. — Francois Fenelon

Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the follower of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety — Syed Ahmad Khan

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint. — Habeeb Akande

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness. — Peter Kreeft

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love. — Confucius

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

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

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

Questioning is the piety of thought. — Martin Heidegger

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety. — Hal Duncan

Great praxis demands great piety. — Sallie McFague

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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

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

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

All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. — Harper Lee

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

Saying of the Prophet
Humility
Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety. — Idries Shah

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

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. — Joseph Story

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety. — James Richardson

Faith is never identical with piety. — Karl Barth

A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness. In — Lydia Maria Francis Child

A righteous wife is a respectful wife. — Habeeb Akande

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

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

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — H.L. Mencken

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness. — R.C. Sproul

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

Love is the piety of the affections. — Theodore Parker

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell

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

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. — John William Fletcher

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

In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety. — Melissa Lane

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young

Piety is good manner, and sin is that which creates doubt and you do not like people to know of it. — Muhammad Bin Abdullah

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
[Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly. — Elizabeth Gaskell

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Thomas Carlyle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. — Aristotle.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. — Saadi

Piety in private is superior to piety in public. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry. — E. M. Bounds

Beauty is like piety
you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. — Herman Melville

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed. — Jean De La Bruyere

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. — Francois Fenelon

As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages. — Scott Hahn

The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. — Abraham Lincoln

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it. — Idries Shah

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity. — Pierre Corneille

Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety. — Barbara W. Tuchman

By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires. — John Calvin

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

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

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

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. — Saint Basil

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness ... we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. — Clement Of Alexandria