Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

HumilityGratitudeTemperancePietySimplicity A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

C. S. Lewis

PhilosophyIdealArtPiety I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

PietyVulnerabilityHumility Lord, help my poor soul.
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Edgar Allan Poe

Religious PersecutionPietyHypocrisy Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Edmund Burke