Godliness Quotes

• Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrisy, Perpetual

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.339

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• 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.

  R. C. Sproul

  God, Christian, Not Interested

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• Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blood, Veins, Way

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• 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.

  David Jeremiah

  Spirit, Guidance, Holy

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• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

  J. I. Packer

  Wise, Prayer, Mean

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• People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Thinking, Self

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• For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith

  W. Ian Thomas

  Self, Christ, Capacity

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

  Jerry Bridges

  World

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• The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

  J. I. Packer

  Godly, Way, Truly Happy

  Dr J I Packer (1987). “Hot Tub Religion”, Tyndale House Pub

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

  Alistair Begg

  Each Day, Cleanliness, Practicals

  Alistair Begg (2005). “Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith”, p.27, Moody Publishers

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

  Saint Augustine

  Real, Accomplishment, Grace

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

  William Carey

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• 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.

  William Penn

  Men, Doe, World

  William Penn (2001). “No Cross, No Crown”, p.42, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Son, Men

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• Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

  Jonathan Edwards

  Action

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.374

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• 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.

  Alistair Begg

  Children, Heaven, Wickedness

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• 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.

  Paul Washer

  Fall, Mean, Progress

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• So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Church, Three

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

  J. I. Packer

  Knowing God, Stills, Knows

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

  Steve Camp

  Perfection, Faithfulness, Obedience

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Toasters, Next

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• God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones. You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water. It cannot be done. There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there. If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Heart, Oil And Water, Two

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• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

  Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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

  Rajneesh

  God, Men, He Man

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Sunday, Men

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