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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
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
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
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.
— Austin O'Malley
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
There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.
— Jennifer Traig
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
— George Santayana
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.
— Stephen Young
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
Piety is good manner, and sin is that which creates doubt and you do not like people to know of it.
— Muhammad Bin Abdullah
A righteous wife is a respectful wife.
— Habeeb Akande
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
— Giambattista Vico
I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.
— Habeeb Akande
The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.
— Melissa Lane
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
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
— Edmund Burke
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
— John Tillotson
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
— Francois Fenelon
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.[Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
— Richard Hofstadter
The path of sanctification isn't just about personal piety, it's about God's grand mission to restore all things to Himself. You
— Jason M. Garwood
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.
— Hal Duncan
Great praxis demands great piety.
— Sallie McFague
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
One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
— Seneca The Younger
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
— Georges Duhamel
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
— Theodore Parker
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
Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.
— Raheel Farooq
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.
— John William Fletcher
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
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
— George Santayana
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
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
— Edith Sitwell
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth
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
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the piety of the affections.
— Theodore Parker
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
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle.
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
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
— Abraham Lincoln
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
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
— Aristotle.
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
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 pietyyou 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
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
