Pious Quotes - 3

"On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations."
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rarther pious but Mr Salteena was not very adicted to prayers so he marched up to bed.

daisy ashford

— Chapter 3 (The Young Visiters (1919))

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What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Martin Luther

— The Great Catechism. Second Command (1529).

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To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

Georges Bernanos

— Chantal to Dr. La Pérouse, p.187

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To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.

thomas hardy

— Bk. I, ch. 7.

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No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope . consequently, the only choice is between worshipping the true God or an idol. Every atheist is an idolater unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Simone Weil

— Last Notebook (1942) p. 308

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In the whole of Indian literature, Tulsidas is supreme....The devotion in his poetry is of the same order as of philosophy . And from the beginning to the end, not a word or an idea, can be spotted which is not perfectly neat and pious.


— Grierson, in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 35

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The most pious of people is the one who fulfills his religious precepts, and the most devout of the people is the one who avoids illegitimate acts.


— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.519

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He has the intelligence of 12 professors and is as pious as a child on the day of his first communion.

Joachim Meisner

— About Pope Benedict XVI

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As in poetry, so in prayer, the whole subject matter should be furnished by the heart, and the understanding should be allowed only to shape and arrange the effusions of the heart in the manner best adapted to answer the end designed. From the fullness of a heart overflowing with holy affections, as from a copious fountain, we should pour forth a torrent of pious, humble, and ardently affectionate feelings; while our understandings only shape the channel and teach the gushing streams of devotion where to flow, and when to stop.

edward payson

— P. 464. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

robert charles wilson

— p. 389 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))

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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.


— Book V,1314.b39

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A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.


— 2:5

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler they consider god-fearing and pious.

Aristotle

— Jews, Myth and History: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Belief... (pg. 25)

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In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

john dryden

— John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681.

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