Quotes tagged ‘Pious’

(4 total)

“While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“I want to tell her that Ofglen is not my friend, that I've exchanged barely fifty words with her in the two months since I got here. I kind of want to tell her that I sincerely believe that Ofglen is a pious little shit with a broomstick up her ass.”

— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com