First, Catholic services included music as a carefully prescribed ritual that fostered true piety.
It was, recalled Reverend Thorn, the kind of Christian house in which he had been raised, the archetype in which to produce true piety.
If that is not true piety, what is?
James Stephen regretted the paucity of active evangelicals combining true religious piety with cultivation 'in heart and understanding'.
Charron states that true piety, which is the first of duties, is the knowledge of God and of one's self; the latter knowledge being necessary to the former.
It was easy to be generous and filial during the good times but when household budgets tighten, what is the cost of true filial piety?
Their wishes would be granted and troubles removed if they worship Shyamji (Barbarika) with a true piety.
Here was a man of large wisdom, true piety, witty and handsome to boot.
His wife was esteemed for sincerity and kindness of heart, graceful and dignified manners, and true and unaffected piety.
No other epoch furnishes such convincing proof that true science and true piety are rather a help than a hindrance to each other.