Sentence examples for true piety from inspiring English sources

One of them, William Bradford, who later became governor of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, likened Robinson's congregation to the early Christian churches because of its "true piety, humble zeal and fervent love towards God and his Ways".

It was easy to extend 'pie' to 'piety' (though I do remember your OED reference mid-1800 as the opposite of true piety; Pierus claimed his nine daughters sang as beautifully as the Muses and they were turned into magpies for that hubris/impiety).

True piety and blessedness are universal in their scope and accesssible to anyone, regardless of their confessional creed.

The "redeemed" Mezentius allows for an Epicurean reading of the Aeneid, in which impietas is redefined as true piety.

This is the real word of God and the foundation of true piety, and it lies uncorrupted in a faulty, tampered and corrupt text.

Genuine piety is not a popularity contest.

None of these activities have anything to do with true happiness or piety.

It has filled people with joy; it has filled people with piety, both true and false.

("He Was a Good Boy, But Now He's Bad!," followed by "The Subject Is Cool, the Author Still Cooler," was Rolling Stone's pairing in its classic period, as this magazine's was the Comment "All Liberal Pieties Are True" followed by the short story "Pious Liberals Play Each Other False").

The movie takes aggressive satirical aim at exactly this kind of piety without risking true offensiveness.

And Luther also insisted that these caricatures of piety obscured the true nature of faith.