Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Your national greatness, swelling vanity your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatre.
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety.
Deem it the summit of impiety to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to sacrifice lifes only end.
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing a vice little known heretofore in the American army is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.'
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Ah, wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace it self with his society?
Oh, Madness, Pride, Impiety!
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