Words matter. These are the best Pious Quotes from famous people such as Michel Faber, Daisy Ashford, Richard Dawkins, Conrad Black, James Wolcott, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
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.
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 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.
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.
Atheists are pious people.
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.
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.
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.
I am not a pious character who never makes mistakes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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.
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
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.
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.
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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.
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?
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.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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.
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.
