Quotes about Piety
If, therefore, God be our greatest good; if there can be no good but in His favour, nor any evil but in departing from Him, then it is plain, that he who judges it the best thing he can do to please God to the utmost of his power, who worships and adores Him with all his heart and soul, who would rather have a pious mind than all the dignities and honours in the world, shows himself to be in the highest state of human wisdom.
— William Law
Fear God and work hard.
— David Livingstone
Faith is taking God seriously.
— Derek Prince
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
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
— Abraham Lincoln
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Put God first in everything you do.
— Denzel Washington
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
— CS Lewis
He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.
— John Owen
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
— Frederick Buechner
You must have faith in God.
— AB Simpson
Religion is the pious worship of God.
— Cicero