“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.” PeopleDoneReligionEvilNotionPossessedPettyConfinedConstraintsPiety Author:A. Powell Davies
“Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]” ReligionHolinessPiety Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.” PhilosophyReligionChurchPhilosophicalPietyHarlotsGerman PhilosophyChurch Lady Author:Franz Grillparzer
“When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He . . . had heard that Mr. Duche . . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche . . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress . . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.” MenShouldFirstsMadeSaidCountryCharacterMightReligionPrayerVirtueHeardMoralityMetsMovedFilledCongressEvery ManGentlemanUnexpectedBosomsPietyBigots Author:John Adams