The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.
Catholic ChurchStichwörter: humor joy catholicism catholic piety
I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.
Habeeb AkandeStichwörter: consciousness god forgiveness religious repentance wrongdoing saint piety god-consciousness mindful-of-god self-righetousness taqwa
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
Baruch SpinozaStichwörter: truth thinking knowledge nature wonder miracles ignorance understanding philosopher foolish fools gods authority adoration cause causation heresy mob piety preservation astonishment interpret stare heretical impious the-gods
Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.
Michael Joseph BrownStichwörter: community righteousness piety
A righteous wife is a respectful wife.
Habeeb AkandeStichwörter: women marriage respect religious wife piety righteous male-female-relationships
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
Émile ZolaStichwörter: freedom virtue piety
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
Richard M. WeaverStichwörter: politeness discipline piety rectitude
There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is so, my friend, and the moment you make yourself sincerely responsible for everything and everyone, you will see at once that it is really so, that it is you who are guilty on behalf of all and for all. Whereas by shifting your own laziness and powerlessness onto others, you will end by sharing in Satan's pride and murmuring against God.
The Brothers Karamazov
Book VI - The Russian Monk, Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima.
Stichwörter: god religion community russia orthodox holiness piety the-brothers-karamazov eastern-orthodox
We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.
Frederick DouglassStichwörter: oppression superstition slave slavery piety revivals slave-owners
The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended to refer to with such words as 'spirituality', 'piety', 'morality', 'ethics' and 'asceticism'. If the manoeuvre succeeds, the conventional concept of religion, that ill-fated bugbear from the prop studios of modern Europe, will emerge from these investigations as the great loser. Certainly intellectual history has always resembled a refuge for malformed concepts - and after the following journey through the various stations, one will not only see through the concept of 'religion' in its failed design, a concept whose crookedness is second only to the hyper-bugbear that is 'culture'.
Peter SloterdijkStichwörter: morality ethics religion spirituality culture piety asceticism practising
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