Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Piety

Quotes about: Piety

• Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Grace, Kneeling, Too Much

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.5

• Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Spring, Wine, Oil

• We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Sorrow, Affliction

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