Top 30 Impiety Quotes
#2. The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down - is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.
Martin Luther
#7. For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good" is to fall into the impiety of questioning the wisdom of God in bestowing gifts of grace where He wills.
Frank E. Gaebelein
#8. If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
Louis Bourdaloue
#9. No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God's special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners. Considering our divine origins, such disrespect is the worst form of impiety. I'm sure your Grace agrees.
David Eddings
#10. Wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety, and are united under the banner of Satan.
Bernard Lewis
#11. Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.
Plato
#12. Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Plato
#13. Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William Rounseville Alger
#14. And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.
Marcus Aurelius
#15. How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?
Paul Virilio
#16. Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
Ephrem The Syrian
#17. Never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
Norman Mailer
#18. One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.
Isaiah Berlin
#19. War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
Livy
#20. Men are so blind in their impiety that, as it were, they bump into mountains and refuse to see what hits them in the eye.
Augustine Of Hippo
#21. Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
Aeschylus
#23. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
Francis Atterbury
#24. And indeed he who pursues pleasure as good, and avoids pain as evil, is guilty of impiety.
Marcus Aurelius
#25. Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
Denis Diderot
#26. Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
John Banville
#27. All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!
Alexander Pope
#28. Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer
#30. I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
John Lyly
