Piety Quotes

“Faith is never identical with piety.”

“Faith is never identical with piety.”

“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”

“All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.”

“Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.”

“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. ”

“Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.”

“Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.”

“However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.”

“Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.”