Quotes about Piety
Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
- Mother Teresa
There is no cruelty in regard for God's honour.
- Jerome
The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.
- Jerry Bridges
Faith idles when character shrivels.
- Miroslav Volf
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
- Charles Hodge
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- CS Lewis
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
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.
- St. Basil
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- Edmund Burke
Give me that old-time religion,It's good enough for me.
- Anonymous
Let them learn first to show piety at home.
- Anonymous
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
- Adoniram Judson