We are all of us imperatively called upon to show piety at home.
It may sound like humility and savor ofpiety to hover in doubt.
The book, although conceived in a tone of lofty piety and deep meditation, was found nevertheless to be a very storehouse of Jansenistic ideas.
In his brief he spoke in the highest terms of the Spanish episcopate, and of the piety and heroic devotion of the priesthood.
Appeals to the ancient piety of Spain, and to the well known virtue of the nation were alike unheeded.
His parents were good, honest people, filled with that simple piety which characterizes the true French peasant.
One tradition represents him as a descendant of the Arab tribe of Ad, who, on account of his piety and wisdom, was saved when the rest of his family perished by Divine wrath.
This cheapness is certainly due to the benevolence and piety of the Doctor, who would be loth indeed to place obstacles in the way of so Christian and religious a ceremony.
For surely the contemplation of a happy course should, even towards its close, be accompanied by a heart full of cheerful piety and gratitude.
Where were the outward signs and tokens of that piety which my father had led me to expect in my uncle?
Ordinarily amongst these saints filth and piety go hand in hand.
When they have done this, they think they have performed an act of piety and mercy.
Any one carrying a miraculous medal, who recites with piety the above invocation, becomes placed under the especial protection of the Mother of God.
An intelligent and judicious friend, well acquainted with him, expressed a decided opinion in favor of his piety and preaching.
The evidence he gave of pietyhad never been wholly satisfactory, but for the last six years he was a communicant in the church.
Few of those distinguished for piety leave a name so spotless.
Three-fourths of the forty in the male seminary were also in the school of Christ, and there was the same prevalence of piety in the female seminary.
Similarly, piety might have demanded that Beowulf should be burnt with his full equipment.
In every age of the church there have been Christians, eminent for their piety and learning, who either rejected some of these books, or who accepted as canonical books not contained in the Bible.
While they were eminent for their learning, they were distinguished for the piety of their lives.
Piety has found Friends In the friends of Science, and true pray'r Has flow'd from lips wet with Castalian dews.
The big young man thought her piety beautiful, and, his voice was unsteady as they talked.
Filial pietyis making you behave with shocking ingratitude.
If we may credit his mother's somewhat partial account, the sight of the monarch's signal piety was so touching as to bring tears to the eyes of admiring spectators.
The curiosity to hear the preaching of the Word of God by men of piety and learning, the desire to hear those grand psalms of Marot solemnly chanted by the chorus of thousands of human voices, had infected every class of society.
But his judgment was sound, his piety fervent, his familiarity with the Holy Scriptures singularly great.
The sorrows of a household, piety Reserves for kindred eyes and ears alone.
Sister, deny me not the privilege Of sharing both thy piety and death.
Whither for comfort go, when piety Is thus requited with the pains of sin?
To pour a glad libation on the corpse, Did piety permit, were more than just.
Again, how could the Athenians, in an age when their piety had not yet given way to scepticism, have endured such dramatic treatment of the chief of the gods?
Such is the smile that Piety bestows On the good man's pale cheek, when he in peace Departing gently from a world of woes, Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease.
The Lenten pietyincreases with the lengthening days.
There was enough of the repressive influence of that savage Spanish piety to spoil the freshness and vigor of a natural life, but not enough to lead the court and the courtiers to a moral walk and conversation.
For five hundred years enormous wealth and fanatical piety have worked together and in rivalry to beautify this spot.
The Moors made a mosque of it when they conquered Castile, and the fastidious piety of St. Ferdinand would not permit him to worship in a shrine thus profaned.
The pietyof the Spanish women does not prevent them from seeing some things clearly enough with their bright eyes.
Among the fatal effects of this has been the extinction of rational pietyand rational patriotism.
The names of the streets indicate the traditions of piety and art that still hallow the neighborhood.
Men might admit that it was unwise from the point of view of statesmanship and damaging to the prosperity of the land, but this only enhanced the credit due to the sovereigns whose piety was equal to the sacrifice.
The city showed its piety by placing candles in front of the sacred emblem and the chapter sent priests to pray before it.
Of this the insurgents took full advantage and demonstrated their piety in the most energetic manner.
That patriotism only is lovely which, imitating the filial piety of the sons of the Patriarch, seeks, with averted face, to cover the nakedness of the country from the eye of a vulgar and invidious curiosity.
He had religious impressions, and a vein of piety which showed itself more in private than in external observances.
For this, and his attacks on the priesthood, and his frequently putting piety in antithesis to morality, he was at last accused of being an impious and irreligious man.
But in truth, sir, I have left no room for an accommodation with the piety of St. James'.
Both made a wide difference betweenpiety and morality.
But, in truth, sir, I have left no room for an accommodation with thepiety of St. James'.
We acknowledge the piety of St. James', but what has become of its morality?
You meanly evaded the question, and, instead of the explicit firmness and decision of a king, gave us nothing but the misery of a ruined grazier, and the whining piety of a Methodist.
Junius frequently puts piety and morality in antithesis, as the following examples will show: "They care not what injustice is practiced upon a man whose moral character they piously think themselves obliged to condemn.
His piety was ne'er denied; His truths hit saint and sinner; At morn he always breakfasted; He always dined at dinner.
Hence the melancholy pietyof Gerson, Pierre d'Ailly and their companions, and the energy with which they strove to bring the schism to an end.
His family had been distinguished for piety and exegetical skill, but though he was known in the Jewish community by commentaries on certain books of the Bible, he never seems to have accepted any rabbinical post.
He asked for a priest, who came immediately; he confessed, publicly repaired the scandals of his past life, and received with piety the Holy Viaticum and Extreme Unction.
Regnault how great consolation he had experienced at this happy change, and how much he had been edified at his piety during this touching but long ceremony.
We observe a certain degree of piety among the soldiers, and the sick are most eager to receive the Sacraments.
The altars were adorned with admirable pietyand taste, notwithstanding our extreme poverty.
In Tien-Men, a village of the same province, the Christians, numbering about two hundred, are distinguished for their piety and a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
Christian countries abound in traditions of this nature; they are one of the sources whence piety derives its nourishment.
A few moments after, he blessed his children, gave them his parting counsel, and died in sentiments of piety rivaling his past irreligion.
In whose life and character the virtues of the hero, the patriot, and the Christian were so eminently conspicuous, that it may justly be said, he served his King and his country with a zeal exceeded only by his piety towards God.
To these qualities are added an absorbing passion for colonization, and a piety and zeal which would not misbecome a Jesuit missionary.
Nor could thy piety thee, Pantheus, save, Nor ev'n thy priesthood, from an early grave.
They are grateful for your piety in wasting this day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piety" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
