“There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.” SpiritMistakeDevilAngelHarborsPiety Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.” GivingSpiritMy OwnPleasureGiving UpLustAbandonPietyFree Spirit Author:Abu Nuwas
“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.” WorldDoeSpiritForceSocialAtheismWorshipModelsAppealsPermanentTensionDependentDistractionRhetoricSensibilityOrganizeRespectablePietyVariablesRevitalization Author:C. Wright Mills