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Source: Legacies of Washington: being a collection of the most approved writings of the late General Washington, with an appendix containing a sketch of the life of this illustrious patriot, &c. &c. (By J. M. Williams.) [With an engraved portrait.]

“You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.”

Ifs Way Looks Ideas Happens Justice Doubt Honest Fool Happenings Commitment Concern Equality Piety Farce

Author:Bono

“We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Age Beautiful Religious Roles Rich Middle Models Role Models Middle Ages Rich People Piety

Author:Alain de Botton

“The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.”

Men Children Father Wish Natural Bounds Piety

Author:William Wordsworth

“Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.”

World Needs Left Sea Teaching Humility Piety Great Teaching

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---”

Men May Mean Has Beens Art Play Suffering Turns Color Sight Surface Piety Graciousness

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.”

Thinking Way Real Destiny Conditions Defined Piety Real Happiness

Author:Isak Dinesen

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”

Religious Prayer Secret Doing Good Piety Pact

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

May Religious Atheism Positive Atheism Mistaken Persecution Shields Piety Guise Zealous Religious Persecution

Author:Edmund Burke

“[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)”

Belief Divine Mindfulness Concerned Cures Sentimental Metaphysical Antidote Piety Transcendent Theism Tumors Scalpels

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.”

Men World Mean Made Purpose Evil Asks Loses Moral Virtue Produce Becoming Survival Productions Destroying Immoral Piety Looting Fodder

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD”

Source: To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future

“Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.”

May Said Hands Happens Fall Teach Path Acceptance Humility Opening Vanity Obedience Arrogance Gates Disobedience Piety Right Path Opening Up

Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi

“I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.”

“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.”

People Shows Speak Simple Influence Sincere Piety

Book:The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

“God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains.”