PIETY QUOTES III

quotations about piety

In periods that are wanting in inspiration piety always assumes the character of caution. It degenerates from a free and joyful devotion to a melancholy and anxious slavery.

J. H. SEELYE

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


Practical piety may be defined as living not according to self-will, impulse, passion, or temptation, but it is living according to God's rules.

J. STOUGHTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers


Piety is the realization and verification of the transcendent in human life.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion


True piety is like the vestal fire, which was intended to burn day and night, and never to go out, and which never did go out so long as they remembered to replenish it day by day.

JAMES HAMILTON

The Mount of Olives and Other Lectures on Prayer


Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

RICHARD M. WEAVER

Ideas Have Consequences


Piety consists in worshipping the ancestral gods according to ancestral customs. This may be true, but piety is supposed to be a virtue. It is supposed to be a good. But is it truly good? Is worshipping gods according to ancestral custom good?

LEO STRAUSS

The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism


No happiness or solid comfort can be found in this vale of tears, like living a pious life.

WILLIAM MOMPESSON

letter, September 1, 1666


Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.

E. M. BOUNDS

Power Through Prayer


The pleasures of piety are infinitely more exquisite than those of fashion and of sensual pursuits. They consist in one even tenor of mind, a lightness of heart and sober cheerfulness which none but those who have experienced can conceive; but they leave no sting behind them; they give pleasure on reflection, and will soothe the mind in the distant prospect. And who can say this of the world or its enjoyments?

HENRY KIRKE WHITE

Poetical Works and Remains


The gods know what sort of person every one really is; they take notice with what feelings and with what piety he attends to his religious duties, and are sure to make a distinction between the good and the wicked.

CICERO

attributed, Day's Collacon

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