Quotes about Piety

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.

Your will be done": Let these be the most profound and most exalted words of your life, in daily submission to the will of God.

To ACCEND  (ACCE'ND)   v.a.[accendo, Lat.]To kindle, to set on fire; a word very rarely used. Our devotion, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort.Decay of Piety.

I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.

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

Nevertheless, secularity, like any good thing, can be overdone. In our zeal to laicize our piety, we shouldn't leave people guessing whether we're Christians. That would be every bit as unnatural as wearing a monk's habit over one's work clothes. Our secularity should never lapse into secularism.

Grant, Almighty God, since thou hast delivered to us a sure rule of worship, which cannot deceive us, and since thy Son became for us a perfect master of all wisdom and of solid piety, that we may obediently follow whatever he prescribes for us..."

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Holding firmly to the principle that true religion is founded upon obedience.

We call "piety" that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond him—they will never yield him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by God.