"Piety is not an end but a means to attain ... the highest degree of culture. This is why ... those who parade piety a…"

"I consider piety to be openness to the unmanipulated mystery of life."

"Intellectual life has a certain spontaneous character and inner determination. It has also a peculiar poise of its ow…"

"Piety, then, needs a counterpoise, something to prevent it from being exercised in an excessively rigid way; and this…"

"Is it not thy piety itself which no longer letteth thee believe in a God?"

"What's piety but the sense of guilt? People want to square off all the things they have wished and done to the belove…"

"The old Roman virtue of pietas (most beautifully illustrated in Virgil’s Aeneid) is much broader than just being reli…"

"Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker…"

"In theory, piety is reverence and love for God; and in practice, it is the exercise of all our powers in obedience to…"

"In periods that are wanting in inspiration piety always assumes the character of caution. It degenerates from a free …"