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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.


Herbert Spencer


#might #pious #upon #volumes #written

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.


Jose Marti


#build #cast #centuries #down #everything

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.


Wole Soyinka


#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.


Billy Sunday


#like #look #persons #pious #some

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.


Stefan Zweig


#completed #copiously #force #mobilization #most

It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murders, unbridled violence, crowded prisons, torture chambers, the hunger and the illness of millions of people and he unnamable misery of a major part of the human race is safely kept outside the solitude of our hearts, our contrition remains no more than a pious emotion.


Henri J.M. Nouwen


#heart #pious #experience

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.


Henri Frederic Amiel


#disappeared #every #guardian #loving #object

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.


Saint Teresa of Avila


#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.


Aleister Crowley


#enormous #evil #exist #makes #menacing

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.


Thomas Fuller


#devil #devotion #himself #pious #sugar






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