53 Quotes About Piety

Faith does not mean reciting a statement only. It means making God the prime focus of one’s life.

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

In the West, we've gone from living in holier-than-thou societies to more-liberal-than-thou ones. Call it secular piety but both are just different forms of the same sanctimoniousness.

Christian prayer and Christian piety, we believe, are based only upon the faithfulness of the Christian message and to Him who is the substance of it.

Piety is a veritable malady of the soul – no matter what one does, one cannot mend one's ways. It penetrates the souls of the unfortunate more easily because it consoles them, because it offers them fantasies to console them for their woes, and so it is much more difficult to eradicate it from these souls than others.

Mr. Wollop had no quarrel with young men who had formulas for dodging responsibility, as long as they did their work in the shop. What he was conscious of was a certain puzzled contempt for anyone whose selfishness was so weak and shaky that it required a pious formula! Mr. Wollop needed no formula, pious or otherwise.

Men are better watching the seasons, and putting good into the earth, than running together in cities, where they listen all day to each other's noises and forgot the gods. Acharnai is quite far enough.

Without praying, there is no acts of piety.

Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!