Quotes of Piety - somelinesforyou

“ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ I do benefits for all religions — I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. ”

- Bob Hope

“ A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams. ”

- St. Basil

“ Oaths are the fossils of piety. ”

- George Santayana

“ The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Christianity is a battle not a dream. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ”

- Robert Ingersoll

“ The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these others, men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after men. ”

- Thomas Arnold

“ Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. ”

- John Wesley

“ Superstition is the ape of true devotion. ”

- Joseph Hall

“ If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland. ”

- Giuseppe Garibaldi

“ It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth. ”

- John Owen

“ Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ The last Christian died on the cross. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. ”

- Voltaire

“ Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. ”

- Voltaire

“ Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ”

- Bible

“ Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ”

- Gerald Stanley Lee

“ You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ”

- Sadi

“ It is happening now. All religions attempt to institute spiritual sensibility. The real spirituality within religion has to do with connection. ”

- James Redfield
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