Christian Piety Quotes

#1. Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Blaise Pascal

#2. I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Abbey Lincoln

#3. A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

John Angell James

#4. Will these books be comedies or tragedies?"
"Both. Just like life.

Tiffany Reisz

#5. The apostle said he was "hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed." He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering. Paul freely admitted the pressure he experienced.

R.C. Sproul

#6. However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling.

Charles Simeon

#7. Personal piety and formal worship are essential to the Christian life, but they must lead to lives that "act justly and love mercy" (Mic. 6:8).

Steve Corbett

#8. He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

Jean Plaidy

#9. How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

Emily Dickinson

#10. My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Sharon Stone

#11. God has never made a person he didn't love. Everybody matters to him.

Rick Warren

#12. When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling - that woman is a Christian.

Frederick Douglass

#13. God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

R.C. Sproul

#14. When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

Pauline Kael

#15. A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

Thomas Watson

#16. Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

J.I. Packer

#17. Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

Saji Ijiyemi