Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
Questioning is the piety of thought.
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.