Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there's good in everyone, that God's looking out for all of us.

We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today.

To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.

If you're looking for Jesus Then get on your knees

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

I was never out of my Bible.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.