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Grant, Almighty God, since thou hast delivered to us a sure rule of worship, which cannot deceive us, and since thy Son became for us a perfect master of all wisdom and of solid piety, that we may obediently follow whatever he prescribes for us...” – John Calvin	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Barbarism will deliver you no glory -- piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be condemned. he clearly thinks terrorism is fueled by religion. – Ebrahim Moosa	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. – Omar Khayyám	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety knoweth nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. – E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. – Sir John Denham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.' – Richard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting. – Hermes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. – Omar Khayym	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Henry M. Wriston	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Grant, Almighty God, since thou hast delivered to us a sure rule of worship, which cannot deceive us, and since thy Son became for us a perfect master of all wisdom and of solid piety, that we may obediently follow whatever he prescribes for us...”

– John Calvin

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Barbarism will deliver you no glory -- piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be condemned. he clearly thinks terrorism is fueled by religion.

– Ebrahim Moosa

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

– William Ellery Channing

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Omar Khayyám

added by anonymous
10 years ago

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

– Hannah More

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety knoweth nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance.

– Saadi Shirazi

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Sir John Denham

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

– Aristotle