To the individual, as well as to the community, piety became a more and more costly article.

Piety then, and valour, nor to do and suffer wrong, are they no virtues? Egre.

Whatever errors or imperfections may have belonged to it, this influence did much to soften the dogmatism of opinion, to arouse a more generous, catholic type of sentiment, to show that the piety of the New Testament is a principle of universal love to man, as well as of love to God, and to emphasise the sovereign claims of personal virtue and social justice.

May filial piety ever be the result of a religious education.

Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force.

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul.

His piety, and a religious sense of his dependance on God, was the basis of all his virtues, and the principle of his whole conduct.

The religion of Jesus tells us that cheerful piety is the best piety.

I believe the piety of those days was rather a passion than a sentiment.

The only life she knew was a certain ideal one, drawn from, the legends of the saints; and her piety was a calm, pure enthusiasm which had never been disturbed by a temptation or a struggle.

The piety and charity of so good an undertaking, I hope will be a sufficient inducement to every person to contribute something to a work so acceptable to God, as well as so advantageous to this Province.

Sense is the rule of his belief; and if piety may be an advantage, he can at once counterfeit and deride it.

Piety was a fashion now, like dark overcoats and lace cravats, and no courtier was so worldly-minded as not to have had a touch of grace since the king had taken to religion.

Think of certain hideous manufacturing towns where the piety is chiefly a belief in copious perdition, and the pleasure is chiefly gin.

Poly-piety is the greatest impiety in the world."

For a time he had thought that her piety and her talk of principle might be a mere mask, for he was accustomed to hypocrisy all round him.