Quotes about Piety

The Bible—and human life itself—is full of evidence that religion itself can become an idol: what the sentimental call the love of God is nothing if it is short-circuited into private piety or religious self-righteousness and doesn't translate into compassion for others.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

He is an intellectual who is unbeholden to the shibboleths of the professoriat and who has a deep appreciation for untutored popular piety.

I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought.