How To Use Piety In A Sentence

Eleazar maintained that it was a great impiety to remain uncircumcised. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Poitiers, dedicated to the queen of Clothaire I. -- who afterwards took the veil, and was distinguished for her piety -- there is shown on a white marble slab a well-defined footmark, which is called "Le pas de Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Surely, no flame of piety, idealism, or self-sacrifice could burn in the cold hearts of its citizens.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart was the characteristic note of the piety of Saint Gertrude the Latest Articles
Shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War he was charged by the political opponents of Pericles with impiety, that is, with denying the gods recognized by the State.

The Genesis legends of Cain and Nimrod, Babel and Sodom uniformly attribute impiety, pride, idolatry, luxury, crime and moral depravity to all cities and their founders, Sodom included.
The woman was childless, and her "sentiments of piety and honorability" guaranteed "a favorable future" to the girl she hoped to receive.
In Martin Hengel's judgment ‘there is hardly one logion of Jesus which more sharply runs counter to law, piety, and custom’.
Commemorating the Crib means passing on the history of popular piety and religiosity.
Zechariah performs his priestly service at the geographical center of Jewish piety, the temple.
No Sin Left Behind yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'No Sin Left Behind'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Public interrogations of piety and faith, such as undergone by the Democratic candidates earlier this week, amount to a sort of religious litmus test for public office. No Sin Left Behind
In the first place, this cult was said to exercise a corrupting influence perversive of piety. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself. The Christian Home
The inworking of this blessedness in the case of each believer proceeds solely and immediately from Christ himself, through the word of institution in which the redeeming and communion-forming love of Christ is presented and ever operates as a stimulus to piety. The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
They hide their real intentions behind a smoke screen of religious piety.
Released in 1627, this utopian novel was his creation of an ideal land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit" were the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of Bensalem. Archive 2009-03-01
This is interpreted to mean that we should only seek to learn the Torah from a rabbi who resembles an angel in holiness and piety.
'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate. The Mother's Book
Helen looked on Miriam as a pretty ornament or toy, and Miriam gazed dubiously at what she called the piety of the other. Moor Fires
Every jot and tittle of civilized dining etiquette is but an act of civil religious piety.
'She can't keep her attention fixed on anything, not even on her prayers, and what she calls piety I should call idleness. The Lake
What better way of assisting this process than by continuing his original act of piety? Times, Sunday Times
More resonantly, Joan, due to her chastity, courage, chivalry, piety and intelligence, personified an exceptional female figurehead.
Satan, a sceptical archangel, offers an experiment to test whether Job's piety is really sincere or predicated on his God-given wealth.
It is by goodness and piety that man reaches perfect happiness: virtue is its own reward.
Less addicted to the study of cartography, the following generations comprehended that this dilated map was useless and, not without impiety, delivered it to the inclemencies of the sun and of the winters.
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. Little Women
Superstition more than prayer and piety characterized popular religiosity there.
This catalyzed the retrieval of these women as theologians-not simply as saints honored for their piety or mystics gazed upon with curiosity.
His piety and wisdom were proverbial among his countrymen at an early period; probably owing to that noble proof he gave of faithfulness, combined with wisdom, in abstaining from the food sent to him from the king's table, as being polluted by the idolatries usual at heathen banquets (Da 1: 8-16). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Such piety is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction. Euthyphro
Throughout, these figures mirror humanity in all its pomposity and haplessness, calculation and honesty, devotion and infidelity, profanity and piety.
Reid notes that Sacrosanctum Concilium identifies a number of very sound liturgical principles, such as the idea that the liturgy is “culmen et fons” (source and summit); the principle (whose source is to be found in the teaching of St. Pius X) surrounding “actuosa participatio” (active or actual participation); it also generally sought to promote a liturgical piety, taking its cues from the 20th century Liturgical Movement. Dr. Alcuin Reid at the Toronto Oratory
The common construction put upon the expression, "_rule with rigor_," and an inference drawn from it, have an air so oracular, as quite to overcharge risibles of ordinary calibre, if such an effect were not forestalled by its impiety. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
And in what way can the contemplatives, religious leaders and educators of our time help to build this bridge from privatised piety to public moral responsibility.
It also appeals to the emotion in a very direct way and gives us an insight into Bach's own personal religious piety.
The life of the mind was inseparable from the notions of piety and prayer. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
As with the old eastern empire, the inspiration was a mixture of piety and politics.
Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever! The Caged Lion
Such emotionally fervent piety was also provided with a catalyst in the devotional use of images.
Superstition more than prayer and piety characterized popular religiosity there.
In a traditional Chinese family filial piety is rigidly observed.
In these words Jacob binds himself never to apostatize from the pure worship of the One God; for there is no doubt that he here comprises the sum of piety. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
With that artless piety, which innocence only knows, she addressed the Supreme Being, and resigned herself to his care.
Few doubt either Ratzinger's stature as a theologian or his deep piety and devotion to the church.
As the natural art of commemoration, sculpture took heart from romanticism, which fostered the remembrance of piety, power, talent, loyalty, or valour.
Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth.
Covering women in the name of religious piety is anathema to the heart of France's libidinous boisterousness, which is rooted in the rejection of publicly religious declarations regardless of religion. Taylor Marsh: Burqa Battle: Rooting for Sarkozy to Win
Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
There is hope to be had in the clear evidence that the observance of the convert can take the form of personal piety rather than politicised religion. Times, Sunday Times
Though young when he wrote them, they bespeak a mature understanding of genuine piety - and the way such piety should be evident in all of life, and pursued with ardour and zeal.
He habitually revealed that reverence for God which in Jewish devotion is the natural climax of true piety.
Its evangelicalism encouraged personal piety but not social reform and gave only limited attention to building the kind of personal character that made for commercial success. America Past and Present
Piety could be no excuse for neglecting the demands of a Machtpolitik whose victories might even be presented to believers as reflecting the higher will of God. An Introductory Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
The last thing to be neglected is to observe the filial piety.
These elements are crucial in understanding the full import of piety as a spirated virtue by the enlivening power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, designed to assist us in becoming more fully one in and with Christ. Part I: Piety the Gift
Once there was devotion, piety, fervor, religion, holy priests, purity of heart.
Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
There were some part-time hadarim for girls taught by women, but in general, women’s education beyond the rudiments of reading and piety was quite exceptional. Jewish Education in the United States.
Jests against religion, sneers at the piety of the godly, irreverent and shocking swearing, and a boastful parade of the immoralities they have committed make up the conversation, I fear, of some circles.
Nor have we examined adequately suffrages for the dead, the question of indulgences, the role of Mary in Christian piety, or the sins of denominationalism against the communion that is God's present gift.
In Korean American communities, the marriage bond has in some ways become stronger than filial piety.
Piety, however, can counteract pietism, but it requires some participation on the part of the free will. Archive 2009-08-01
When did the fool stop saying in his heart, "There is no God," and acting godlessly in the absurdity of his impiety? Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks
The implants of piety, they are diabetically sweet, so blissfully sugary that you get a deific rush. Times, Sunday Times
And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading.
Worship is an elementary component of religious activity and in the faith of Christianity, it performs as the piety to the God.
And whatsoever comfort shall remain of all forepast, the same will consist in the charity which we exercised living; and in that piety, justice, and firm faith, for which it pleased the infinite mercy of God to accept of us, and receive us. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
In goodness of heart, and in principles of piety, this exemplary couple was bound to each other by the most perfect unison of character, though in their tempers there was a contrast which had scarce the gradation of a single shade to smooth off its abrupt dissimilitude. Camilla
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
Suidas called Lucian “The Blasphemer;” and he added that he was torn to pieces by dogs for his impiety. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
As early as Spring and Autumn Warring States period, great ideological and educator Confucius advocated Kindheartedness and filial piety.
Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation.
She celebrates the family values promoted by the tondi: paternal nurturing; maternal piety, chastity, and fertility; and health, beauty, and innocence in children.
The unintended but inevitable outcome of this religious subjectivism was the separation of religious piety from secular learning.
This peaceful little oasis of piety and good will might be described as an anteroom of heaven. NYT > Home Page
Ironically, the groups were founded to promote religious study and piety. The Sun
The piety commended is, in either case, a kind of stalagmite piety, built up from below, with the disadvantage of no drippings from above; a really cavernous formation, upon which the’ true light of day never shone. Sermons for the New Life.
Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
He is commonly remembered not as the mature creator -- forging, in mingled arrogance and piety, "the uncreated conscience of his race" -- but as a winged figure poised for a break with the dominating forces in his background. James Joyce
That was precisely what made them attractive to the intellectuals; and a kind of piety about truly authentic proletarians was to be found among Marxist intellectuals for generations.
When he shall have arrived at his full stature in impiety, shall have filled up the measure of his iniquity, then all shall be called over again. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He possessed great erudition and piety, was of a most mild and tranquil disposition, and of a calm and benignant temper.
My sympathies rush to reach my co-religionist sisters struggling to prove that piety isn't reactionary, that covering your head doesn't mean covering your mind. Haroon Moghul: She's Hot and Hezbollah: When Women Are Wielded as Ideological Weapons
Step across its threshold (beneath the royal escutcheon of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain) and you brush against a time when these colonnades shaded both piety and intrigue.
The women's piety and sanctity is stressed by the authors of the lives as they present their audience with the often miraculous and always worthy events and visions of the houses 'members. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
But wearing a hair shirt was not considered masochistic in the 16th century, nor was personal piety at odds with public prestige. Times, Sunday Times
Now to determine the day and year of this inevitable time, is not onely convincible [110] and statute-madness, [111] but also manifest impiety. Religio Medici
The filial piety is an accomplishment point of departure to promote personal morals.
A man who never ventured one impious word or deed against the gods we worship, but whose whole language concerning them, and his every act, closely coincided, word for word, and deed for deed, with all we deem distinctive of devoutest piety. Memorabilia
For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition.
But Hussein kicked the ball right back at the Khartoum government, refusing to pay the fine and choosing instead to spend a month in jail to show solidarity with the thousands of other women, Muslim and non-Muslim, that the so-called Islamic Sudanese regime singles out for its brand of hollow piety. Global Voices in English » Egyptians React to the Sudanese “Sin”
The fifth five that was used, as I find, by this knight was free-giving and friendliness first before all, and chastity and chivalry ever changeless and straight, and piety surpassing all points: these perfect five were hasped upon him harder than on any man else. The Pentangel Depaynt of Pure Golde Hwes
This is a clash between piety and profanity, between light and darkness, between the path to Paradise and the way to Hell.
Garibaldi was always or almost always victorious (in reality he fought brilliant guerrilla skirmishes which piety later turned into vast and tidy battles); he was the first to be called Il Duce, a pompous nineteenth-century opera libretto title, by antonomasia (Mussolini had been called Il Duce by his socialist followers before 1914 and took the title with him to the Fascist party). The Not So Great Dictator
Yet remember, this is also an age of untruth and boutique piety.
Morton, half speaking to himself; “here is a poor peaceable fellow, whose only motive for joining the conventicle was a sense of filial piety, and he is chained up like a thief or murderer, and likely to die the death of one, but without the privilege of a formal trial, which our laws indulge to the worst malefactor! Old Mortality
In 399 he was charged with impiety (through not duly recognising the gods the city recognised, and introducing new, unrecognised divinities) and, a separate alleged offence, corrupting the young.
In contrast, her examination of the spirituality of Muscovite women finds that gender stereotypes helped shape women's religious experiences and piety.
Over the span of his life, El Greco moved from an environment dominated by the archaic patterns of piety of the Eastern Church to the febrile, religious atmosphere of Counter-Reformation.
Groups of winsome lads violate the faith of the believers with acts which are sufficient to shake the very roots of piety.
Vain to call in universal-suffrage parliaments at that stage: the universal-suffrage parliaments cannot give you any breath of life, cannot find any _wisdom_ for you; by long impiety, you have let the supply of noble human wisdom die out; and the wisdom that now courts your universal suffrages is beggarly human _attorneyism_ or sham-wisdom, which is _not_ an insight into the Laws of God's Universe, but into the laws of hungry Egoism and the Devil's Chicane, and can in the end profit no community or man. Latter-Day Pamphlets
His Buddhist piety led representatives of the thousands of Untouchables who had embraced Buddhism to invite him to be their leader.
She sets this change within the context of a wider intellectual shift from Puritan piety to the Enlightenment's faith in progress and the inherent goodness of man.
The City of Man is a world of profound imperfection, peopled by fallen, sinful beings who can only hope for ultimate citizenship in the City of God through an earthly life of piety.
He beat in me the duties of loyalty and filial piety.
Moreover, realists argue that the need for survival requires state leaders to distance themselves from traditional morality which attaches a positive value to caution, piety, and the greater good of humankind as a whole.
A pen case worn by the figure helps to identify the image as an author: a set of prayer beads in his left hand demonstrates his piety.
The Italian-inspired architecture of the baroque period reflects a combination of religious piety and worldly opulence.
This was one act of religious piety that did not convey anger, but deepened communal solidarity.
Her target was solely the marranos, "converts" who were suspected of still practising their "heathen rites" under the cloak of Catholic piety.
It always would be, even if his object of forlorn piety never saw him the same way again.
Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time. The Secret of Kells
The sanctimonious piety of the man is sickening. Times, Sunday Times
As he felt the young fellow's eyes upon him he recalled the effusive piety of his conversation at Tyler Sudley's house, his animadversions on violin-playing and liquor-drinking, and Brother Peter Vickers's mild and merciful attitude toward sinners in those un-spiced sermons of his, that held out such affluence of hope to the repentant rather than to the self-righteous. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
She describes daily life with her extended family, her experiences at school and her mother's piety.
A mix of incomplete memories, of sublime glamour tinged with nostalgia and some religious piety thrown in for good luck. Times, Sunday Times
Enfranchisement of slaves, often in a body, and ransom of slaves and captives became works of piety.
His artistic skill and piety was noted and he was given the name Fra Angelico (Brother Angel). TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Whoso combineth these three qualities attaineth perfection, and he who addeth thereto the piety and fear of the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I think what many people may react against is not piety but the "pietism. Archive 2009-08-01
They not only preached the gospel and set an example of piety and virtue. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
Now our intrepid graduate student can conclude that the piety of the wise consists in the imitation of the gods.
They established personal standards of piety and virtue that no other group of people since then can match.
The last thing to be neglected is to observe the filial piety.
Christians; for such enfranchisement is doubtless a benefit so far as it may be compatible with truth and piety. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
During the space he remained in prison under condemnation he behaved with so much gravity, piety and composedness, as surprised all who saw him, many of whom were inclined to think his case hard. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
There have been not a few fine English gentlemen and ladies of this sort; who patronised the poor without ever relieving them, who called out “Amen!” at church as loud as the clerk; who went through all the forms of piety, and discharged all the etiquette of old English gentlemanhood; who bought virtue a bargain, as it were, and had no doubt they were honouring her by the purchase. The Virginians
The fashion of taking it for granted that the whole world is fast going over to the gospel of ganglia and bathybius, of _vox populi et præterea nihil_, is not confined to the 'fanatics of impiety' in France. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
For there is no doubt, but an evil choice (the thing here meant by malice) is that which greatens the impiety and guilt of an action into the nature of presumption; which action, done out of a sudden incogitancy, might pass for but a weakness, and so stand rated at a much lower pitch of guilt. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
A man of irreproachable personal piety who nevertheless has no objection to his neighbors’ boozing on the Sabbath or fornicating in haylofts is not a Puritan.
This Chlotar, who was strong-minded and well-read, was also a God-fearing man, for he was a munificent patron of churches and priests, an almsgiver to the poor, kindly disposed to all and full of piety. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity.
Grant me melody, O my God, to hymn and recite and honour the exploits of Thy passion -- endurer and martyr, that I may harmoniously laud the great in suffering (mentioned by name), who ever was the vanquisher of passions, great in piety and is now shining forth in the midst of the choir of martyrs, with whom and a multitude of angels, he doth incessantly hymn The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Want of prudence, as well as piety, hath brought men into great inconveniencys; but he that is well stored with both, seldom is so insnared. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
They also passed a law that public officeholders possess the moral characteristics of ‘piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality.’
The assertors of this inverse ratio between piety and amusement must, in short, dispose as best they can, of the fact that along with the growth of Christian intelligence, Christian benevolence, and Christian activity, there has been developed in the church itself a growing sympathy with many of the very forms of amusement most condemned by the religious sentiment of an earlier age. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
The question of what piety means or what the term piety refers to still needs to be answered, by finding the suitable reason. Planet Atheism
The strain of keeping up the appearance of piety while lacking all religious conviction helped to turn him into a querulous hypochondriac whom it was difficult for his wife and son to love or respect.
As one who works primarily with youth from the public schools, I see that they live in a pluralistic world, out of touch with both the touchy-feely liberalism and the outward trappings of Tridentine piety.
This catalyzed the retrieval of these women as theologians-not simply as saints honored for their piety or mystics gazed upon with curiosity.
A man may have a brain as keen as a Damascus scimiter, and yet he is wanting without piety. Colleges in America
In June 2001, he was canonized for his piety and good works as Saint Bernard of Corleone.
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Ambrose Bierce
I've thought it all out in this here lonely island, and I'm back on piety.
Under the doctrine of religious liberty, an exceptionally wide sphere of personal piety and voluntary social action was left to the churches. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
Of this kind of indifferency to all competing forms of external worship, and even of doctrine, combined with either a mystical and dreamy piety, or a wildly-fervid enthusiasm, The Life of John Milton
Women were, strictly speaking, not allowed to fulfill the highest ideal of filial piety, an ideal that was ironically grounded in the virtue attributed to ideal womanhood - the maternal instinct to care and be cared for.
Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
By the end of the play, the very qualities he considers to be virtuous - sacrificial piety, constancy, and militarism - are those that lead to tragedy.
An atmosphere of piety and religious fervour permeated the building, as the Catholics, many of whom had taken time off from work, gathered in front of a large photo of the Pope placed on the altar.
Besides keeping meticulous records, the fifth earl of Huntingdon was a man of exemplary piety, a moderate Calvinist who was obsessed with sabbatarianism.
The Resurrection Man - to use a byname of the period - was not to be deterred by any of the sanctities of customary piety.
Then, by Heaven, we have discovered the source of this vain opinion of all those physical investigators; and I would have you examine their arguments with the utmost care, for their impiety is a very serious matter; they not only make a bad and mistaken use of argument, but they lead away the minds of others: that is my opinion of them. Laws
Despite her glamour she was never a prima donna, and the memory of her vocal clarity and unaffected piety will endure.
And opposite to him his mutinous son was sitting asprawl in a chair, smoking a cheap cigarette with an exceptionally heavy scowl; a lively picture of youthful impiety. The Complete Father Brown
They called it a royall looking glasse: howbeit, in regard of the fond fables, wherewith (but for the most part vnder the shew of religion and piety, whereby it is more difficult to finde out the cousinage) it doeth all ouer swarme, it deserueth not the name of a looking glasse royall, but rather of a popular, and olde wiues looking glasse. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
Piety did not apply to unrighteous parents, and unrighteous elders, people who lived not according to God's Word e.g. ‘she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth’.
A lively and enlightened faith, a solid and fervent piety, and a superior mind, convinced him that since the time of the abasement of the Son of God, humiliation is honorable, and adds to the splendor of the highest dignities; a truth which is not understood by persons of little faith, by the proud, the indevout, and those of little mind. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Most authors gave consistent coverage of themes, with the exception of lay religious piety and practice.
Consequently the term piety extends also to the divine worship. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
His religious piety, even his self-critique, seems sincere here.
The keepsakes also revealed the tension experienced by members of the upper classes who desired to display their wealth while appearing to obey the dictates of Christian piety.
True spirituality does not vest in any one religion or form of piety, it is to be found in the least expected of places.
People believed that filial piety was the first of all kindnesses.
What better way of assisting this process than by continuing his original act of piety? Times, Sunday Times
Such piety, is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction. EUTHYPHRO
By the end of the programme, it was athletes and fans who hung themselves in public with their own illogical justifications and absurd piety.
The ardent longing for some being above us, on whom we can lean when our own powers fail, -- the wonderful instinct which desires a faithful friend to whom we can tell every joy and sorrow without fear of disclosure, the thankfulness with which we behold this beautiful world and all the rich blessings we have received -- these are the feelings which we call piety -- devotion. An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04
Sabbath-hallowing is intended as a symbol of holiness in general (Eze 20: 12); therefore much stress is laid on it; the Jews 'gross impiety is manifested in their setting Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Worship is an elementary component of religious activity and in the faith of Christianity, it performs as the piety to the God.
The King summoned the twain forthwith, as he loved them for their fidelity and piety; and, sending for the woman, that he might hear from her own lips what she had to say against them, thus bespake her, “O woman, what hath betided thee from these two men in whom I trust?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
One of the more distressing features of these supposedly godless times is the encouragement of a kind of slack-jawed piety; we must be nice about all religious institutions simply because they are, um, religious.
As Draper writes, Rumsfeld is not known for ostentatious displays of piety. Sunday Reading
Later, as fitted her new-found piety, she received such petitions at an embroidery frame.
It informs us in all the duties of life, piety to our parents, faith to our friends, charity to the miserable, judgment in counsel; it gives us _peace_, by _fearing_ nothing, and _riches_, by _coveting nothing_. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
They were drawn to the church not by piety but by curiosity.
We contingency realize most confidently which a Holy Spirit never reproves offer if a impiety is cleansed by a changed red red red blood as good as forsaken. Archive 2009-11-01
The reasons which induced him to alter his mind were, in the first place, the piety, methodistic most of it, which was then mixed up with politics; and secondly, a growing fierceness of temper, which made the cause of the people a religion. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
The most revivalist denominations and local churches with strong traditions of lay preaching remained leery of a process which appeared to value learning and credentialism as much as piety and calling.
If God prosper your domestic ties, piety will give fresh zest to every homefelt joy. The Young Maiden
He had, besides, not only sent all King Henry's saints about their business, or rather about their no-business -- their faineantise -- but he had laid them under rigorous contribution for the purposes of his holy war; and having made them refund to the piety of the successor what they had extracted from the piety of the precursor, he compelled them, in addition, to give him their blessing for nothing. Maid Marian
Nor does it follow from hence that spirits are nothing: for they have dimensions and are therefore really bodies; though that name in common speech be given to such bodies only as are visible or palpable; that is, that have some degree of opacity: but for spirits, they call them incorporeal, which is a name of more honour, and may therefore with more piety be attributed to God Leviathan
He was old, and his breath laboured; there was a faint smell about him, of damp wool, of poultices, of cough linctus and piety. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
The Newburyport woman is "consigned" to the "hell" that is the cellar and is being kept and treated like a beast even though she exhibits an almost angelic piety. Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America
Whereon a sprightly devilkin seized hurriedly upon his soul and was on the point of bearing it away to Hell, when an angel (mindful doubtless of the abbey's piety) arrived, objecting with a nicely argued piece of logic that the sacristan had not been carried off "en male veie," but before any sin had been committed. The Story of Rouen
In all, this is a handsome book which gave me much pleasure as I toured vicariously places hallowed by centuries of Catholic piety.
Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time. The Secret of Kells
Discoursing with an honourable person [1] (whose piety I value more than his nobility and learning, though both be great) about a case of conscience concerning oath and vows, their nature and obligation; in which, for some particular reasons, he then desired more fully to be informed; I commended to him Dr. Sanderson's book "De Juramento;" which having read, with great satisfaction, he asked me, -- "If I thought the Doctor could be induced to write Cases of Conscience, if he might have an honorary pension allowed him to furnish him with books for that purpose? Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
It was long before the spirit of true piety and true wisdom, involved in the principles of the Reformation, could be depurated from the dregs and feculence of the contention with which it was carried through. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
While some was directed at the youngster for what was described as her failure to show respect for her elders, others accused the older woman of obtusely demanding piety.
The roots of many carnivals around the world are in pre-Lenten debauch - a time to get down and dirty before those 40 days of strained piety.
Anent this question the Tibetan legends speak of a strange lama who came to the land of Amdo from the far western regions and resided in Tsong K'aba's tent, a man of wondrous learning and piety, having a big nose and bright dashing eyes. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
There, on the sandy bank of the river, at a spot where later piety erected a dagaba (a solid dome-shaped relic shrine), he cuts off with his sword his long flowing locks, and, taking off his ornaments, sends them and the horse back in charge of the unwilling Channa to Kapilavastu. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
If good and bad are merely what seem good and bad to the individual observer, then how can one claim that stealing or adultery or impiety or murder are somehow wrong?
Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution.
The Italian-inspired architecture of the baroque period reflects a combination of religious piety and worldly opulence.
Giani wrote in his Preface that the Servite lunette paintings should serve as an example for narrative painting in general, and focused on their didactic function and their role as a visual stimulus to piety.
Most religious painting of the time depicted the Holy family or the saints in a contrived, idealised way, full of piety and grace.

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