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Tag Name "Impiety" (12)

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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
Aeschylus
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Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
Ephrem the Syrian
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For a Christian to say, I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good is to fall into the impiety of questioning the wisdom of God in bestowing gifts of grace where He wills.
Frank E. Gaebelein
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
John Lyly
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If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy if he is not, of impiety if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
Louis Bourdaloue
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William Rounseville Alger
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A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
Francis Atterbury
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Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
John Banville
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...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
Livy
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...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
Norman Mailer
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To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?
William Shakespeare