Piety Quotes
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There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.
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Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
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A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
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Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
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The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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.
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Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.
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Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
