Godly Quotes - Page 8

• The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Love, Hate, Heart

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.170, Xist Publishing

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• Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

  Francois Fenelon

  Gratitude, Past, Inspire

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• The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

  Charles Stanley

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

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• Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.

  Mark Gorman

  Life, Dream, Money

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• And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

  Chris Tomlin

  God Is With Us, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 05, 2014

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• My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

  E. W. Kenyon

  Jesus, Righteousness

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• The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

  Richard Allen

  Strength, God, Christian

  Absalom Jones, Richard Allen (1993). “A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of Some Censures Thrown Upon Them in Some Late Publications”, Eastern Acorn Press

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• Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

  Jesse Owens

  Grace, Today, Tomorrow

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• For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

  John Calvin

  Misery, Strive, Strife

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• God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

  Marva Dawn

  Motivation, Healing, Pride

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• If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

  Emmet Fox

  Prayer, Meditation, Sickness

  Emmet Fox (2010). “Find and Use Your Inner Power”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Tyrants, Persecution

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• I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

  Imelda Marcos

  Sorry, Saying Sorry

  "No Apology, It Was A Godly Act - Imelda". NewsFlash News Agency, October 14, 1998.

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• All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

  Jeff Iorg

  Devil, Good Things, Has Beens

  Jeff Iorg (2007). “The Character of Leadership: Nine Qualities that Define Great Leaders”, p.150, B&H Publishing Group

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• Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

  Alan Bennett

  Dream, Thinking, Shy

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• They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Heart

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• Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Joy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in.

  David Letterman

  Heart, Light, World

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• Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has forgotten them and that they can't rise because of their color.. we can only build... with faith in ourselves and with self-reliance, believing in our own possibilities, that we can rise to the highest in God's creation.

  Marcus Garvey

  Believe, Self, Color

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• Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?

  David Gemmell

  Kings, Fighting, Causes

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, "Rigante series", Ch. 2, 2002.

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• And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that's certainly isn't what God intended.

  Katherine Harris

  Father, Men, Law

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• In order to live as we were designed to live, we must be in pursuit not simply of manhood but of godly masculinity. That begins by being men who are rightly related to God, who understand what it means to fear him, and who respond to that fear by being alert, standing firm in the faith, and being men of courage.

  Bob Lepine

  Mean, Men, Order

  Bob Lepine (2003). “The Christian Husband: God's Vision for Loving and Caring for Your Wife”, Gospel Light Pubns

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• I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

  Bobby Bowden

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.

  Watchman Nee

  Mercy Of God, Way, Sin

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.109, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Focus, Grace, Sorrow

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