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Piety Quotes

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

"The Beginnings of Dialectic Theology". Book edited by James McConkey Robinson, Volume 1, 1968.

Great praxis demands great piety.

Sallie McFague “Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature”, Fortress Press

Be happy, but be happy through piety.

"Corinne" (1807), Book XX, Chapter III, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 350-52, 1922.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.43

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.133, 谷月社

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books