Godliness Quotes - Page 4

• Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Discipline

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.446, Zondervan

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• Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

  William Gurnall

  Mother, Children

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• 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.

  J. C. Ryle

  Party, Heart, Spirit

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Essentials, Next, Cleanliness

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

  Khalil

  Afterlife, Greed, Trying

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Silence

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• Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

  David A. Bednar

  Pathways, Priesthood, Power Of God

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• If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

  Tom Robbins

  Interesting, Might, Next

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.20, Bantam

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• Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Bumps, Arms

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• It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Heart, Godly, Doors

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.62

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• Your absence is the presence of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Absence, Presence Of God, Your Absence

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• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Son, Thinking, Temptation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

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• I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

  Vigen Guroian

  Prayer, Sleep, Garden

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• What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

  Isaac Newton

  Latin, Years, Greek

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• Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.

  William Morley Punshon

  Flower, Believe, Men

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson

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• I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations.

  Mark Dever

  Thinking, Play, Important

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Men, Doctrine, Add

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

  Matthew Henry

  Serious, Christianity, Free Thought

  Matthew Henry (1850*). “The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death”, p.202

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• Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

  Martha Finley

  Father, Men, Religion

  Martha Finley (2016). “ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…”, p.37, e-artnow

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• To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Expectations

  Neale Donald Walsch (2009). “The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study”, p.119, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Real, Racism, Mind

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• Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Believe, Human Nature

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.117, A&C Black

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• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Next, Sin, Cleanliness

  "Advancement of Learning" by Francis Bacon, (Book II), 1605.

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• My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Humanity, Misunderstood, Guilt

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• My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fitness, Stress, Guilt

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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