Godliness Quotes

Godliness Quote of the day

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

Harmony is next to Godliness

The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.

We must endure to the end; . . . We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

Godliness is practical religion.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>.

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.