Godly Quotes - Page 17

• Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Reality, Devotion To God

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.54, NavPress

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• Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of peace several times in the New Testament. He took the initiative to establish peace with rebellious men, and He is the author of both personal peace as well as peace among men. Peace should be part of our character also because God has promised us His peace, because He has commanded us to let peace rule in our lives and relationships, and because peace is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore an evidence of His working in our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Men, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

  Rick Warren

  Women, Pastor, Threatened

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

  John M. Perkins

  Recognition, Serving Others, Glory

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• Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• ... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over this as at a wedding. It is Christ Himself Who says, 'Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who repents' (Lk. 15:7). For joy, according to the Apostle, is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22), Who through conversion brings back to Christ those living in repentance, and reunites them with Him. And this joy embraces both those in heaven and godly men on earth. That is why there is joy in heaven over one repentant sinner.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Men

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• There is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.

  Matisyahu

  Space, Order, Ideas

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• Ladies, use a loving voice, use a respectful voice, use a godly voice, but don't lose your voice.

  Mark Driscoll

  Voice, Use, Respectful

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  Death, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Men, Devil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.362, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Animal, Men

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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

  Way, Truly Happy, Humans

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

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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• Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.

  Jack Coe

  Jesus, House, Christ

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• Life is the childhood of our immortality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Childhood, Immortality

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• There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Bad Ass, Men, Evil

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• For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Religious, Flower

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.

  Andrew Wommack

  Focus, Needs, Attention

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• Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

  Joel Osteen

  Fighting, Promise, Enemy

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Hope for Today Bible”, p.1404, Simon and Schuster

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• Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

  Peter Marshall

  Men, Fire, Enthusiasm

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• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friday, Morning, Children

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• Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.

  Robert E. Webber

  Spiritual, Recovery, Commitment

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• We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, America

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• Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

  George W. Bush

  Blessing, Giving, Presidential

  Address Welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House, delivered 16 April 2008, South Lawn

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• Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Humor, Thinking

  "The Way of Zen". Book by Alan Watts, 1957.

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