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A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.
— Laura Wiess
It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
On the way to truth, you can never see the priest, the imam or the pious! They are lost; they wander on the dark roads of ignorance!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our athiests are pious people.
— Max Stirner
How impervious to things spiritual, my heart!" cries a St. Bernard. "No savor in pious reading, no pleasure in meditation nor in prayer!
— Alfonso Maria De Liguori
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
— Daisy Ashford
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
— Susan Howatch
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
— Brennan Manning
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
— Akhil Sharma
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
— C.S. Lewis
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
— Sophie Swetchine
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
— Madhur Bhandarkar
Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children! — V.C. Andrews
Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
— Vincent De Paul
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
— Maurice Samuel
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
— Henry Fielding
When it comes down to it, no matter how pious or like-minded he might be, a Christian jerk is still a jerk.
— Kevin Roose
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
— Colley Cibber
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
— Simon Callow
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
— William M. Evarts
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.
— Simon Conway Morris
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
— Thomas Merton
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
— Winston Churchill
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servantthese three have a hard life. — Franz Grillparzer
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.
— Bernard Cornwell
If mercy is needed to be exercised towards our pious duties - what shall be said of our sins!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I'm not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
— Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
There are some men, great men, who were once pious and moral; these men act unwisely and are driven by the torment of their souls
— Paul W. Feenstra
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
And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.
— Christopher Hitchens
Pious" is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!
— Robert Charles Wilson
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I did believe that love strongest and most pious of all God creations .
— Avantika Debnath
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!
— George MacDonald
All dishonest earnings are the blood of the innocent. Honest earnings are like sweet milk and make the mind pious.
— Sawan Singh
![Pious Quotes By D.H. Lawrence: [Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/pious-quotes-by-d-h-lawrence-396656.jpg "Pious Quotes By D.H. Lawrence: [Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise")
[Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
— D.H. Lawrence
There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence.
— Bernard Cornwell
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
— John Adams
The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.
— George Orwell
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
— Sigmund Freud
Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating
— George R R Martin
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
— James Russell Lowell
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.
— Jerry Bridges
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
— Aleister Crowley
Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but
— Herman Melville
He doubted the hand of God but did not discount it - discarding only the God of the pulpit and the pious.
— Jeffrey Lent
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
— James Russell Lowell
The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment
— Dan Jones
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
— Nicolas Chamfort
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
— Martin Luther
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
— Anton Chekhov
He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
— Giambattista Vico
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
— Lillian Hellman
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
— Georg Hermes
Religion is the pious worship of God.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Atheists are pious people.
— Max Stirner
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
— Julius Evola
When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.
— Brennan Manning
Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.
— Sonia Orwell
But I hope we don't burden Amy with the idea that living outside the city limits is an inherently pious act. That rural equals righteous.p 3 — Michael Perry
Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?
— Plato
