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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
Great praxis demands great piety.
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
Faith is never identical with piety.
Questioning is the piety of thought.
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Be happy, but be happy through piety.
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.
I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an ultra-conservative ideology that equates piety with the disappearance of women.
The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety. It reflects the Framers' belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'