Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Atheists are pious people.
A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
Religion is the pious worship of God.
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
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.
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.
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.
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.
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.
My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.
In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.
In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Our pious horror at the intolerant and repressive behaviour of Islamic State is bitterly funny, given that it is really not that different from the policies of our close ally, Saudi Arabia.
People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.
I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit on Maud's bed while she is lying under the covers with only a T-shirt on, determined to seduce him.
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.
Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.