Chinese culture and religions all value filial piety as a top virtue and De, and the act is a continued display of piety and respect towards departed ancestors.

Filial piety is considered the first virtue in Chinese culture.

Laprade's subject was French provincial life, its culture, its piety, and its sober patriotism.

Filial piety is considered the first virtue in Chinese culture, and it is the main concern of a large number of stories.

According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.

Thus, Euthyphro is brought to a realization by this dialectical method that his definition of piety is not sufficiently meaningful.

But then they describe a king Menkaura ( whom they call “ Mykerînós ”) as the follower of Khaefre and that this king was the counterpart of his two predecessors: Herodot describes Menkaura as being saddened and disappointed about Khufu ´ s and Khaefre ´ s cruelty and that Menkaura brought peace and piety back to Egypt.

Chiefly under Abbot Theodore ( 759-826 ), the Studion became a centre of learning, as well as piety, and brought to a culmination, the glory of the order.

Recognising her piety and her character, he brought the girl to the Holkar territory as a bride for his son, Khanderao ( 1723 – 1754 ).

" Some Asian American men are brought up under stringent gender role expectations such as a focus on group harmony and filial piety, carrying on their family name and conforming to the expectations of the parents.

Witnessing and testifying became an integral component to these meetings, where a congregation member or even a stranger would rise and recount his turn from a sinful life to one of piety and peace.

According to Graydon Snyder, " The Noah story afforded the early Christian community an opportunity to express piety and peace in a vessel that withstood the threatening environment " of Roman persecution.

He published the Theological-Political Treatise anonymously in 1670, arguing ( according to the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ) that " the freedom to philosophize can not only be granted without injury to piety and the peace of the Commonwealth, but that the peace of the Commonwealth and Piety are endangered by the suppression of this freedom ", and defending, " as a political ideal, the tolerant, secular, and democratic polity ".

In which peace, piety, and faith resided,

Louis VII was known by his contemporaries for his piety and love of peace.

Huldah, after authenticating the book and prophesying a future of destruction for failure to follow it, ends by reassuring King Josiah that because of his piety, God has heard his prayer and " thou shalt be gathered unto thy grave in peace, neither shall thy eyes see all the evil which I shall bring upon this place.

Most historians say that large sums of money and promises of vast properties and governorships of provinces were offered to commanders of Hassan's army who left him, one of which was ubaydallah ibn al abbas, the commander of Imam Hassan army and that Muawiyah was not interested in the functions of preaching piety or theology but in expanding his sphere of influence in the territories already conquered by the Muslims and in further conquests to the north and north west of Syria.

During the controversy, both sides had tried to marshal public opinion ; as a result, lay people became engaged in religious affairs and lay piety increased, setting the stage for the Crusades and the great religious vitality of the 12th century.

Known as the " Christian general " because he tried to base his policy decisions on his deep religious piety, he was given charge of the Freedmen's Bureau in mid 1865, with the mission of integrating the freed slaves into Southern society and politics during the second phase of the Reconstruction Era.

Then, they tried to prove to the clergy that the correction of the books in accordance with the Greek standards profaned the pure faith because the Greek Church had deviated from the " ancient piety " and had been printing its divine service books in Catholic print houses and that they had been exposed to Roman Catholic influences.

The values they tried to instill in their children were filial piety, obligation to community and authority ( on ), reciprocal obligation ( giri ), the importance of hard work, perseverance, frugality, and a drive for success ( seiko ).

In 1985, Annemarie Schimmel remarked that until then only one study had " tried specifically to depict Muhammad's role in Islamic piety.

Another act of piety, by the feudal superior of the lands was to free it of its obligations to them-taxes, and such like.

That part of France was then under English domination, influencing lay English piety.

Bower goes on to tell a story about Robin Hood in which he refuses to flee from his enemies while hearing Mass in the greenwood, and then gains a surprise victory over them, apparently as a reward for his piety.

By this definition, then, piety can be either genuine, in that it springs from spiritual piety, or false, in that it is an attempt to exhibit the signs of piety for their own sake, or for some other reason ( such as propitiation or public esteem ).

Socrates concludes that if Euthyphro's definition of piety is acceptable, then there must exist at least one thing that is both pious and impious ( as it is both loved and hated by the gods )— which Euthyphro admits is absurd.

If Máel Coluim were present, and the repeated mentions of his piety in the annals make it quite possible that he made a pilgrimage to Rome, as did Mac Bethad mac Findláich (" Macbeth ") in later times, then the coronation would have allowed Máel Coluim to publicly snub Cnut's claims to overlordship.

The Medieval Muslim scholar, al-Ghazali pointing out that the only legitimate " preference principle " in the sight of God is piety, writes: " every time a rich man believes that he is better than a poor one, or a white man believes that he is better than a black one, then he is being arrogant.

He then participated in the government, and he was also director of the Mont-de-piété ( Mount of piety ) of Mons.

Shippey, then a Fellow of St. John's College, taught Old and Middle English with Tolkien's syllabus, and his meeting with Tolkien at the dinner left him full of professional piety.

However, as he then points out a little later, this is still not enough for a definition, since piety belongs to those actions we call just or morally good.

Euthyphro then suggests that piety is concerned with looking after the gods ( 13b ), but Socrates immediately raises the objection that " looking after ", if used in its ordinary sense, which Euthyphro agrees that it is, would imply that when you perform an act of piety you make one of the gods better — a dangerous example of hubris, which gods frowned upon ( 13c ).

Characters with high piety scores and proper priestly training may then petition their deity for miracles appropriate to the deity's nature ( healing, divination, sustenance, etc.

The initiates would enter the circular nave, and then take monastic vows of piety, chastity, poverty and obedience.

Euthyphro then revises his definition, so that piety is only what is loved by all the gods unanimously ( 9e ).

The Bull begins with Christ's warning against false prophets, especially such as " secretly spread evil doctrines under the guise of piety and introduce ruinous sects under the image of sanctity "; then it proceeds to the condemnation of 101 propositions which are taken verbatim from the last edition of Quesnel's work such as: grace works with omnipotence and is irresistible ; without grace man can only commit sin ; Christ died for the elect only ; every love that is not supernatural is evil ; without supernatural love there can be no hope in God, no obedience to His law, no good work, no prayer, no merit, no religion ; the prayer of the sinner and his other good acts performed out of fear of punishment are only new sins ; the Church comprises only the just and the elect ; the reading of the Bible is binding on all ; sacramental absolution should be postponed till after satisfaction ; the chief pastors can exercise the Church's power of excommunication only with the consent, at least presumed, of the whole body of the Church ; unjust excommunication does not exclude the excommunicated from union with the Church.

Fina, a child renowned for her piety, was orphaned at an early age, and then suffered a disease which rendered her invalid.

Conversely, the rejection of syncretism, usually in the name of " piety " and " orthodoxy ", may help to generate, bolster or authenticate a sense of uncompromised cultural unity in a well-defined minority or majority.

Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino ( 1441 ): " The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal ; but that they will go into the " eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels " ( Matthew 25: 41 ), unless before death they are joined with Her ; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier.

Lastly, compared to the Patriarchates in Constantinople, Rome, and Alexandria which for various reasons became mired in the theology of imperial state religion, many of its Patriarchs managed to straddle the divide between the controversies of Christology and imperial unity through its piety and straightforward grasp of early Christian thought which was rooted in its primitive Church beginnings.

It places a high premium on Christian unity, personal piety, missions, and music.