Quotes about Piety

I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not sufficiently attended to by modern Christians in this country. Politics, or controversy, or party-spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us.

Depend on it, the nearer men draw to heaven, the more humble do they become.

I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not given adequate attention by modern Christians in this country. Politics, controversy, party spirit, or worldliness have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has sadly fallen into the background.

Sound Protestant and evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless: it causes harm. It is despised by insightful and perceptive men of the world as an invented and empty thing, and it brings Christianity into contempt.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

It is not to learn the form of the doctrine of godliness, but to get the power of it implanted in our souls.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.