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Holmes makes a convincing case for the Voltairean smile being all of a piece with the memorable bon mots we associate with this powerful and again pointedly unpious preacher of tolerance.
David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism David Tereshchuk 2011
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In the filthy unsanitized biblical world it was considered unpious for a Rabbi to even have contact with these people let alone proselytize to them.
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For a temple town, Kolhapur has plenty unpious bad-boy attitude!
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The Revealer: unpious commentary on religion journalism
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The Revealer: unpious commentary on religion journalism
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After the sailor's wrinkled old wife had brought in some coffee for his two guests, and he had filled his short black pipe, he began his narrative of his once-time scrap with Captain William Broome, of unpious memory.
Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt
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It is true, confidence in men is generally presented in the Scriptures as deceiving [Psa. cxviii, 8; Jer. xvii, 5, 6, etc.]; here, however, the question is only as to an unpious confidence which builds not upon God but upon man, and of the state of sinfulness in general.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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But so soon as the objectors presume to reprehend the seeking after happiness as an essential and necessary phase of the highest good, and to brand as unpious the striving after the same as an actual life-purpose in general, we must reject their position as one-sided and untrue.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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In prayer man enters into personal communion with God, and in loving confidence expressly communicates to him as the All-knowing One, his pious thinking, feeling, and willing; only that which is pious can be communicated to God; a consciously unpious prayer is blasphemy.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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When Schleiermacher and others, after him, declare it as unpious to be interested in a recompense, — understanding by this assertion that there is wanting a pure and immediate seeking for piety and morality themselves, and that both are desired merely as means for attaining to perfect happiness in
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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