Inspirational Quotes on Piety

“The Psalms are selected by the Christian from the whole Bible, as they were by the Jew from the books in his possession - the Old Testament ... nor will there ever be in the world such an advance in religious light, experience, and knowledge, that they will lose their relative place as connected with the exercises of practical piety."”

“Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.”

“Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.”

“If you here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the early Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor through inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”

“Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man's crown to make it more bright and massive.”

“Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer the fear of death.”

“Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.”

“Suspect everything that is prosperous unless it promotes piety and charity and humility.”

“True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.”

“A contemplative life has more the appearance of piety than any other; but the divine plan is to bring faith into activity and exercise.”

“The religious man is the only successful man. Nothing fails with him. Every shaft reaches the mark, if the mark be God. He has wasted no energies. Every hope has been fulfilled beyond expectations. Every effort has been even disproportionately rewarded. Every means has turned out marvelously to be an end, because it had God in it, who is our single end. In piety, every battle is a victory, simply because it is a battle. The completest defeats have somewhat of triumph in them; for it is a positive triumph to have stood up and fought for God at all. In short, no life is a failure which is lived for God; and all lives are failures which are lived for any other end.”

“The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of God.”

“There are lots of people think you are not doing any spiritual work unless you are singing, "Come to Jesus."”

“Never was there a man of deep piety, who has not been brought into extremities - who has not been put into fire - who has not been taught to say, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him."”

“Christian prayer and Christian piety, we believe, are based only upon the faithfulness of the Christian message and to Him who is the substance of it.”