Being Pious Quotes

#1. When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.

Brennan Manning

#2. Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. Be her and be yourself, simultaneously. Be outrageous. Being pious is easy and pleasant, go ahead and make yourself hated.

Evgenij Vodolazkin

#4. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.

Truman Capote

#5. Life is a direction, not a destination...

Maximus Freeman

#6. When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Brennan Manning

#7. Our sufferings may be hard to bear, but they teach us lessons which, in turn, equip and enable us to help others.

Billy Graham

#8. Loving Your Enemies ... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

Angie Harmon

#10. The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

James MacDonald

#11. My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.

Nikola Tesla

#12. Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make.

Mehgan Heaney-Grier

#13. I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

Richard Dawkins

#14. I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

Jessica Raine

#15. But she was in love, and love isn't about making sense.

Laura Joplin

#16. I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#18. But the fraud being once established, could not afterward be explained, for it is with a pious fraud as with a bad action, it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Thomas Paine

#19. In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by God.

John Calvin

#20. Generosity is a willingness to give, to open without philosophical or pious or religious motives, just simply doing what is required at any moment in any situation, not being afraid to receive anything.

Chogyam Trungpa

#21. Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs

John Motson