Crossing the Chinvat bridge, he is then conducted by " Srosh, the pious and Adar, the angel " through the " star track ", " moon track " and " sun track " – places outside of heaven reserved for the virtuous who have nevertheless failed to conform to Zoroastrian rules.

After Pharez's death an angel carried it to the mountains of Moab and buried it there, where the pious Jethro found it.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

All were said to have been remembered as just and pious rulers.

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

Renata Adler of The New York Times said The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( now widely considered one of the finest films in the history of cinema ,) was " the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre ".

" Donald Spoto, in a book about Saint Francis of Assisi, said monks were motivated to call them children, and not wandering poor, because being poor was considered pious and the Church was embarrassed by its wealth in contrast to the poor.

In the conversation that followed between Boaz and Ruth, the pious proselyte said that, being a Moabite, she was excluded from association with the community of God ().

In Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Life of Saint Oswald, Oda is said to have joined the household of a pious nobleman called Æthelhelm, whom he accompanied to Rome on pilgrimage.

" Gurdjieff said, even specifically at times, that a pious, good, and moral man was no more " spiritually developed " than any other person ; they are all equally " asleep.

The Benchers ' table is also said to have been a gift from Elizabeth, and as a result the only public toast in the Inn up until the late 19th century was " to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of Queen Elizabeth ".

In Surat Al-Kahf (" The Cave ", 18: 83 – 98 ) of the Qur ' an, a pious warrior king called Dhul-Qarnayn journeys to the place between the East and the West, and in the place between the two mountains he finds people who scarcely understood a word " 18: 94 They said: " O Dhul-Qarnain!

* With regard to innovation within religion, Ahmad said “ The graves of sinners from People of Sunnah is a garden, while the graves of the pious ascetics from the People of Innovation is a barren pit.

" I'm not going to be pious and tell you we would have turned it down ," DeMoss said.

At age 16 he married Saraswatibai, said by tradition to have been a pious young girl.

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In 1973, he said, " The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism ... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

The execution, or murder, is said to have taken place at Sutton, four miles ( 6 km ) from Hereford, with Ethelbert's body brought to the site of the modern cathedral by ' a pious monk '.

King Æthelberht of Kent was traditionally said to have moved his royal court there from Canterbury in about 597, for example by John Duncombe in 1784, and to have built a palace on the site of the Roman ruins ; but archaeological excavation has shown no evidence of this, and the story has been described as probably a " pious legend ".

In it, he famously is quoted as having said, " The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

U2 singer Bono said: " Ronnie has left his earthly tour for one of the heavens ... they need him up there ... it's a little too quiet and pious.

When a pilgrim from Jerusalem came to bless the well, the vigilant and pious villagers are said to have murdered him.

He was a very pious man and was said to have effected many miraculous cures for gout and toothache.

Luther's commentary on proposition # 18 provides a representative example of its general tone: " I was wrong, I admit it, when I said that indulgences were ' the pious defrauding of the faithful.

Abdullah Sungkar said: " Islam does not question whether the government of a nation is a kingdom or a republic, but what is important is that its government is faithful to Allāh, holds to the trust of safety, honesty, upholds the principle of deliberation, upholding the pious nature of humanity and acts piously towards the welfare of the people.

He laboured with what has been said to be great success for the advancement of Christian education among the faithful, promoted popular missions and pious ecclesiastical societies, introduced annual retreats for the priests of his diocese, and fostered religious orders, especially female teaching orders.

In France, it saw the nadir of the monarchy and the zenith of the great magnates, especially the dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy, who could thus foster such distinctive contributions of their lands as the pious warrior who conquered Britain, Italy, and the East and the impious peacelover, the troubadour, who crafted out of the European vernacular its first great literary themes.

The eighteen-year-old king, although thus far a king solely by title, became deeply involved in the war against the Turks, having been brought up in standard of a pious Christian monarch and ideal Christian knight, and paid no heed to the interests of Poland and of the Jagiellonian dynasty.

He often praised the Muslim leaders of his own day, even if he lamented their power over the Christian kingdom ; thus Muslim rulers such as Mu ' in ad-Din Unur, Nur ad-Din, Shirkuh, and even Jerusalem's ultimate conqueror Saladin are presented as honourable and pious men, characteristics that William did not bestow on many of his own Christian contemporaries.

As with the canons, differences in the observance of rule gave rise to two types: the canoness regular, who lives in a religious house, taking the traditional religious vows, and the secular canoness, which was primarily a way of leading a pious life by daughters of aristocratic families who did not wish to take religious vows, and thus remained free to own property and leave to marry, should they choose.

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

In 1978 the Christian Century quoted him thus: " I am a pious apostate, an atheist shocked by the faithlessness of the believers, a fellow traveler of moderate Catholicism who has been out of the church for 20 years.

As vampires, they're to prey upon humans, thus unleashing God's Wrath upon the unworthy and representing tests for the pious.

Dennis defined it thus: ' Wowser: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder '.

Even though the oral law states clearly that one is permitted to derive benefit from Chelev, the Sefer Hasidim posits that if not for man ’ s weaknesses it would have been forbidden, and thus it is forbidden to derive benefit from Chelev for any pious person.

These individuals were thus not accepted as members despite leading otherwise pious and upright Christian lives.

Abu-Bakr was an able general, taking the fertile Sūs and its capital Aghmāt a year after his brother's death, and would go on to suppress numerous revolts in the Sahara, on one such occasion entrusting his pious cousin Yusuf with the stewardship of Sūs and thus the whole of his northern provinces.

Bezalel is said to have been only thirteen years of age when he accomplished his great work ( Sanhedrin 69b ); he owed his wisdom to the merits of pious parents ; his grandfather being Hur and his grandmother Miriam, he was thus a grandnephew of Moses ( Exodus R. 48: 3, 4 ).

English author Frederic Harrison wrote Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century ( 1904 ), which portrays Theophano as the arch-schemer of Constantinople who manipulated the court to secure her own position in the face of inconstant Imperial leadership ( the vain and distracted Constantine VII, the drunkard Romanus II, the overly pious Nicephorus Phocas ) and thus largely for the good of the state.

The imperial scholar Pei Zong ( 裴總 ) believed that that was inappropriate, pointing out that Du came out of the period of mourning to take an office and thus, in Pei's opinion, could not be considered sufficiently filially pious.

These punishments were designed to deny the defeated an honourable burial ; Philip thus continued to present himself as the pious avenger of the sacrilege committed by the Phocians.

" He describes the pious deeds he performed after his conquest: he restored peace to Babylon and the other cities sacred to Marduk, freeing their inhabitants from their " yoke ," and he " brought relief to their dilapidated housing ( thus ) putting an end to their ( main ) complaints.