Sentence examples for your piety from inspiring English sources

(Matthew 6 1 reads, "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven").

And if you dispute that rare use of the journalistic "we", then I must conclude you missed out on the American Century, and congratulate you on your piety, purity, and better-than-thattery.

Of course what Matthew says earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, in Chapter 6, is you can't just say 'let money, let the state, let all those issues stay on one side and let you do your piety on another'.

It's time we all accept the possibility that you were not selected because of your piety, but your reach.

Jesus himself had strong words about public religiosity: "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them" (Matthew 6 1).

Jesus said, "Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them" and "sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men".

It's more virtuous to conspicuously demonstrate your piety--even if it comes at this suffering woman's expense--than to show a little compassion to someone who's lived for so long on the outside looking in?

It's more virtuous to conspicuously demonstrate your piety--even if it comes at the expense of these people's suffering--than to show a little compassion to folks who've lived for so long on the outside looking in?

Whether you are amused or aghast by these revelations depends on your allegiances and the degree of your baseball piety.

Whatever your political pieties, if your freshman daughter's passport had just been stolen in Ecuador, the boy who answered the senator's phone never tried, "Can we get back to you next week on this?" Staff members stayed on the line until the embassy had been informed, until you could give your sobbing girl precise directions to replacement documents waiting there in Quito.

His targets include organized religion (from "The Pope Song": "If you cover for another motherfucker who's a kiddie fucker / Fuck you, you're no better than the motherfucking rapist"), homeopathy, liberal piety ("Take your canvas bags / to the supermarket"), Jesus (a.k.a. "zombie Jew"), and his own sizable ego.