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pious
«There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.»
«The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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«Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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Writing
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impieties, impiety, pious, volumes
«There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
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alleviation, facing, features, pious, uglier, veracity
«The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.»
«What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them»
«The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God?s right of love over his life and soul. The object of our possession becomes smaller than ourselves, and without acknowledging it in so many words the bigoted sectarian has an implicit belief that God can be kept secured for certain individuals in a cage which is of their own make. In a similar manner the primitive races of men believe that their ceremonials have a magic influence upon their deities. Sectarianism is a perverse form of worldliness in the disguise of religion; it breeds a narrowness of heart in a greater measure than the cult of the world based upon material interest can ever do. For undisguised pursuit of self has its safety in openness, like filth exposed to the sun and air. But the self-magnification with its consequent lessening of God that goes on unchecked under the cover of sectarianism loses its chance of salvation because it defiles the very source of purity.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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God
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