#piety

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

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[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) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

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

— Edmund Burke

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Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

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