Piety Quotes - Page 9

• In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Matter, Poverty, Obstacles

  Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.184, Paulist Press

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• Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Glory

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• ...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God'.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Philosophy, Believe

  "Conferences".

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• ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Heart, Men

  "Conferences".

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• As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

  Samuel

  Strong, Children, School

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• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

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• Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

  Immanuel Hermann Fichte

  Self, Action, Emotion

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• Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

  Hermann Hesse

  God Love

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• Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Cathedrals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2353, Delphi Classics

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• He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

  George Orwell

  Childhood, Saint, World

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Sex

  William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”

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• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

  Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.

  Jo Walton

  Religious, Dragons, Church

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Character, Atheism

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.365, Vintage

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• If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

  Edith Sitwell

  Children, Poetry, Ordinary

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• Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
  [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Holiness

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• In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, People, Would Be

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”

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• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Past

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Inch Kenneth'

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• I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

  John Dryden

  Drama, Enemy, May

  John Dryden (1970). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume X: Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Sorrow, Affliction

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• Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

  Blaise Pascal

  Different, Superstitions, Submission

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• piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Long, Littles, Way

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.218, Bantam

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• We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

  Hannah More

  Religious, Memories, Heart

  Hannah More (1814). “The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...”, p.98

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• One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Tasks, Culture

  Susan Sontag, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003). “Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung”

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• It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Christian, Education, School

  Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society”, p.342

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