Piety-Impiety

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion. (Joseph Adison)

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. (Emerson)

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist; underneath, atheism runs rampant. (Antonio Machado)

All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw)

Saintliness is also a temptation. (Jean Anouilh)

The saints indulge in subtleties in order to think themselves criminals, and to impeach their better actions. (Pascal)

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. (Emerson)Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist; underneath, atheism runs rampant. (Antonio Machado)

All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw)

Saintliness is also a temptation. (Jean Anouilh)

The saints indulge in subtleties in order to think themselves criminals, and to impeach their better actions. (Pascal)