Quotes of Pious - somelinesforyou

“ I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life. ”

- William Law

“ No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ”

- Christopher Columbus

“ There she shookThe holy water from her heavenly eyes,And clamour moisten'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is "holy war". ”

- Steve Allen

“ The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ”

- St. Augustine

“ God alone is the object of the godly man's worship. ”

- George Swinnock

“ The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. ”

- Bible

“ A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ”

- John Dryden

“ Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. ”

- Gandhi

“ The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. ”

- Bruce Kent

“ We are aiming for political pluralism with a broad spectrum of parties - ranging from the left to the religious parties, as is the case in Israel. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. ”

- Bible

“ O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief — holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. ”

- Bible

“ To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent — that is to triumph over old age. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them? ”

- The Dhammapada

“ Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion — and purification. ”

- Omar Sharif

“ I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. ”

- Gerald Stanley Lee

“ The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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