Pious Quotes - Page 6

• Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods
  Themselves are cherished.

  Ovid

  Heaven, Rewards, Cherish

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• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hypocrisy, Hens, Meat

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• A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Children, Hypocrisy, Hard Life

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• I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it.... There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare, the sentiments uncommon, the vicar is contented, humble, pious, virtuous--but upon the whole the book has not at all satisfied my expectations.

  Fanny Burney

  Reading, Book, Eye

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• First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example everlasting.

  Henry Lee III

  Leadership, War, Heart

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• The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Color, Moral Leadership, Rocks

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• Our thinking is a pious reception.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Reception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

  Alan Watts

  Expression, Games, People

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• Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Names, Doubt, Chance

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach all of us - including German theologian-bishops - about the truth of the Gospel and the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.

  George Weigel

  Doubt, Bishops, Kingdoms

  Source: eppc.org

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• Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

  Simon Callow

  Jesus, Personality, Catholic

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• These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

  Henry Fielding

  Friendship, Fraud

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.287

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• The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the sky, born at one time and space, to be ourselves. Everybody is our neighbor. All we have to do is say, "I am with you." When you start being one with everybody, then you are actually with God, because if you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Stars, Sky, Space

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• It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

  Dan Barker

  Religion, Atheism, Current Events

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.248, Ulysses Press

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• It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

  Emile Zola

  Joy, Had Enough, Virtue

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• If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Religion, Matter

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2011

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• It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Sleep, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

  T. S. Eliot

  Graduation, Christian, Men

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• I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Dream, Business, Believe

  Muhammad Yunus (2001). “Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

  Oswald Chambers

  Determination, Mean, Pride

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, May, Fraud

  'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

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• Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Firsts, Steps, Worship

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• Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Desire, Doe

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• Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid'ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don't accuse him of lying in hadith; and a righteous pious worshiper who does not accurately retain what he narrates.

  Malik ibn Anas

  Wisdom, Lying, Taken

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• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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