Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.
piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.
In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.
