Pious Quotes

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Religion Other Apprehensive Side Consider Tyrant Ruler Easily Must Uncommon He Put Devotion Him His Hand Subjects Pious Gods Move Against Less Illegal Appearance Whom Believing Treatment
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. Lewis
Humble People Problem Some Real Pious Real Problem Suffer Why Believing
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley
Evil Enormous Pretense Menacing Only Makes Does Exist Pious Vague
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. Henri Frederic Amiel
Woman Guardian Affection Past Every Some Object Disappeared Pious Which Loving
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. Rebecca MacKinnon
Good Censorship Argument Bad Moral About More More Or Less Quickly Pious Accusation Patriotic Whether Less Who
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. Thomas Mann
Life Myth Out Unconscious Timeless Pious Traits Which Formula Foundation Flows
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. Andre Aciman
Business Engineer Sit Lying Seduce Determined Only Scene She Him Bed Covers Very Pious Forget Decide While Night Suit
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious. Billy Sunday
Think Some Like Look Pious Hedgehog Persons
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. Daisy Ashford
Few Bernard Some Rather Had He Hall Always Prayers Pious Afterwards Whiskey
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. Greg Graffin
Saying Time Great Nature Knowledge Science Natural People Before Would Admire About Darwin Given More Knew Most Were Very Pious Than Us Natural Science Who Many
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. Helmut Kohl
Woman Remember Mother Parents Sense Other Religions Never She Catholics Were Very Pious Against Christians
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. Hu Shih
History Experience Say India Religious Religious Experience Student Judged Pious Chinese Incapable Standards Europe Even Medieval
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. James Wolcott
Love God Eyes Judge Dark King Unlike Alike Presume Andy Andy Warhol Sharing Almighty Like Beyond Princess Equal Princess Diana Voyage Does Saints Diana His God Almighty Sinners Celebrities Pious Sitcom Same Former Warhol Boat Star Deserving Larry Larry King
I really do believe that no one is too pious to fall or too far gone to be redeemed in some way. Jaime Lannister on 'Game of Thrones' did terrible things, and now I feel so bad for him because his sister won't kiss him. Isn't that weird? Does she not love him? He lost a hand! It kills me that I care. Jeffrey Bell
Love Me Game Care Kiss Fall Lost Sister Gone Believe Too Way Bad Some No-One He Weird Feel Redeemed She Terrible Him Because Does His Hand Pious Did Far Really Game Of Thrones Now Things
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! Johannes Tauler
God You Blessed Nothing Every Meditations Exalted Sacrament Like Himself Devout Exercise Practise Pious Godly Manage May Your Comparison Profound
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. Julius Wellhausen
Wish Building Unity Worship Solomon Easy Temple Properly More Date Moreover Never Had Between Demand Until Practical Read Lines Existence According Pious Than Any After Speaking Even
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. Lionel Blue
Family People Own Christianity Too My Own Mention Neutral Crude Like Devils Were Pious Decent Decent People Turned Chambers Gas Gas Chambers
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. Madhur Bhandarkar
Motherhood Am Pious Inherent Belief Humbled
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. Martin Chemnitz
Better Language Important Matters Meditation Tremendously Points Main Attention Calling Important Matters Am Understood Pious Than Human Just Which Explained Human Language
Atheists are pious people. Max Stirner
People Atheists Pious
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me. Simon Callow
Me Personality Stayed Like Catholics Affected Impression Very Pious Many Jesus
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. Susan Howatch
You Joy Duty Christian Kind Give Sounds Pious Want Much Away
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. Thomas Fuller
Devil Action Sugar Devotion Himself Pious

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