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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

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.


C. S. Lewis


#humble #people #pious #problem #real

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.


Peter Lombard


#elect #forth #go #grieved #impious

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.


Jean de la Bruyere


#king #man #pious #were #who

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.


Thomas Mann


#formula #foundation #into #life #myth

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.


Hu Shih


#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!


Johannes Tauler


#comparison #devout #every #exalted #exercise

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'


Dylan Thomas


#copiously #dylan #i #i think #me

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.


Martin Chemnitz


#attention #better #calling #explained #human






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