This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Faith is never identical with piety.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go.

When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love's rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship's blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, "You are welcome," at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce for wisdom piety delight or use.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

In a society which is structured the wrong way piety has no effect.

For many the hijab represents modesty piety and devotion to God and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The moving finger writes and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it.

For though we love both the truth and our friends piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Wonder connected with a principle of rational curiosity is the source of all knowledge and discover and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder and is satisfied with wonder is the quality of an idiot.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Faith is never identical with piety.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal also his fine art finally also the only kind of piety he knows his 'divine service.'