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• Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Office, President

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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• It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

  Hannah More

  Exercise, Meditation, Return

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 406, 1895.

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• I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Achievement, Ambitious

  James Elkins (2005). “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings”, p.6, Routledge

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• The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Saint, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

  Georges Bernanos

  Girl, Silly, People

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

  Martin Luther

  Blow, Taught, Behinds

  "The Great Catechism". Book by Martin Luther, Second Command, 1529.

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• The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

  Martin Luther

  Would Be, Sin, Righteous

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.54, Fortress Press

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.

  S. T. Joshi

  Meaningful, Religious, Atheist

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• These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.

  Anne Royall

  Christian, Mother, Running

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• I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

  Gary Sloan

  Atheist, School, Numbers

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• It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Book, Writing, Needs

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• A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

  James Luther Adams

  Views, Judgement, Atheism

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

  Susan Straight

  Insane, Riding, Eccentric

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• I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.

  John Waters

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Spiritual, Men, Hands

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Believe, Expression, Order

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Intelligence, Sometimes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.73, Routledge

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• Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

  David Hume

  Thinking, Liberty, Fraud

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

  Francis Atterbury

  Humble, People, Victory

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• Religion is the pious worship of God.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Worship

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• Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.120, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.

  Sherwin Wine

  Religious, Children, Years

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• A pious fraud.
  [Lat., Pia fraus.]

  Ovid

  Deceit, Fraud

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• Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Wish, Unattainable, Fulfilled

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• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Distance

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