Quotes of: Pious Keyword

Whores and thieves are always very pious.

French

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.

German

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Marilynne Robinson

Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in...

The Religious Affections

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Herbert Spencer

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

Akhil Sharma

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Billy Sunday

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Georg Hermes

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Jean de la Bruyere

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Madhur Bhandarkar

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

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Thomas Mann

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Aleister Crowley

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Thomas Fuller

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Hu Shih

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

The Third World; Country or People

There is no actual need of humans to be a pious like an angel, it's a big chase to be a human and for me it's enough to be a human.

M.H. Rakib

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis