Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. — Dennis Prager
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise. — Plato
Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. — Marcus Aurelius
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. — William Blake
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God. — William Blake
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving. — Aristotle
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. — Bhumibol Adulyadej
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. — Confucius
Short Godliness Quotes
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. — William Carey
The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness. — Rudolf Hess
Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept. — Swami Vivekananda
It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman. — Rick Warren
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. — P. J. O'Rourke
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again. — Zoroaster
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions — Jonathan Edwards
Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness. — Osho
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness Quotes
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
Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in. — Gerry Spence
Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. — John Wesley
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. — Charles Dickens
A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness. — Henry Ward Beecher
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. — Erma Bombeck
If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne. — Jerry Climer
Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness. — Chris Gardner
Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap. — Terry Pratchett
Cleanliness Godliness Quotes
If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness. — Alistair Begg
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
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. — Francis Bacon
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
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. — Carl Van Vechten
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. — Charles Dickens
Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria? — Elizabeth Goudge
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. — Terry Pratchett
Practice Godliness Quotes
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness. — Jonathan Edwards
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us. — Jerry Bridges
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton
People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness. — Alistair Begg
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
When a man finds a good woman and treats her the way she deserves to be treated it will change his Life. God favors a man that finds his wife and Loves her the way God Loves her — Tony Gaskins
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. — Sojourner Truth
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. — Sojourner Truth
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. — John Knox
The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God. — Tony Evans
A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth. — Ellen G. White
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. — R. A. Torrey
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. — George Balanchine
Godlike Quotes
Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day. — Marie Forleo
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
The new creation is created after God in righteousness and true holiness. The new man is after God, like God, godlike, complete in Jesus Christ. The new creation is just like God. May I say it like this, "You are a little god on earth running around." — Benny Hinn
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. — Horace Mann
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles Lindbergh
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature. — Sri Aurobindo
Godlike the man who
sits at her side, who
watches and catches
that laughter
which (softly) tears me
to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time
I see her. — Catullus
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. — Sam Vaknin
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable. — Charles Sumner
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
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. — Clement of Alexandria
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. — Kahlil Gibran
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
I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness. — Jada Pinkett Smith
Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood, lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness. — George Q. Cannon
And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. — Pope Clement I
The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY? — C. F. W. Walther
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
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
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. — Alexander Crummell
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
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man. — Isaac Newton
Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority. — Joshua Harris
Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.' — Pope Clement I
You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being. — Jane Roberts
The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being. — Lorenzo Snow
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. — Alistair Begg
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. — Joseph Fielding Smith
There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis. — Jim George
Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be. — Matt Chandler
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
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace . — Saint Augustine
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness? — John of Damascus
Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards. — Barbara Cartland
Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together. — Arthur Tappan Pierson
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