Sentence examples for private piety from inspiring English sources

Public discussions of private piety really are, on balance, bad form in terms of political communication.

For the most part, this has manifested itself in the growth of private piety and the development of a significant minority of Islamic politicians in local and national government.

Now Mr Edgar, himself a minister, says that it seeks a renewed discussion of "public values" like poverty and war, not just the "private piety" of abortion and homosexual marriage.

But he rode to power on promises of private piety, public probity and wealth redistribution that recall the fervour of the revolution of 1979, which overthrew the shah and brought Ayatollah Khomeini and his Islamist allies to power.

The City of Man was set against the City of God, public citizenship against private piety, the divine right of kings against the right of resistance, church authority against radical antinomianism, canon law against mystical insight, inquisitor against martyr, secular sword against ecclesiastical miter, prince against emperor, emperor against pope, pope against church councils.

But when poverty-striken Socrates (he taught in the streets for free) strode through the city's central marketplace, he would harrumph provocatively, "How many things I don't need!" Whereas all religion was public in Athens, Socrates seemed to enjoy a peculiar kind of private piety, relying on what he called his "daimonion", his "inner voice".

He sought to elevate the status of religion in public and private life, making piety fashionable in both the upper- and middle-classes of society.

Draped in Tiffany diamonds, Callista is the embodiment of the divide between Gingrich's public piety and private immorality.

But most likely, the project, which took at least five years to finish, was self-assigned, a private act of devotional piety and perhaps of personal necessity, like Gerard Manley Hopkins's late sonnets.

Across the political spectrum, throughout the media, in private and public life, the pieties and ritual declarations are second nature now: "warriors," "heroes," "mission"; "our young men and women in uniform," "our brave young men and women," "our finest young people".

Prayer and private offerings are generally called "personal piety": acts that reflect a close relationship between an individual and a god.