Godliness Quotes

• 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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• 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 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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• By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

  Rajneesh

  God, Stars, Mean

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

  Rajneesh

  God, Men, He Man

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• 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

  Religion, World, Tests

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• The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

  Phillips Brooks

  Secret, Wickedness, May

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• Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Joy, Men And Women

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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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• 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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• There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.

  Rajneesh

  God, Song, Creativity

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• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Landscape, Extinction, Next

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• Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

  Ellen G. White

  Character, Sacrifice, Men

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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• What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.

  Rajneesh

  God, Glimpse, Firsts

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• God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there is nobody to worship. All your worship is sheer stupidity, all your images of God are your own creation. There is no God as such, but there is godliness, certainly - in the flowers, in the birds, in the stars, in the eyes of the people, when a song arises in the heart and poetry surrounds you... all this is God. Let us say `godliness` rather than using the word `God` - that word gives you the idea of a person, and God is not a person but a presence.

  Rajneesh

  God, Song, Stars

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• Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are traveling on holy earth, that whomever you are meeting, you are meeting God - there is no other way; only faces are different, but the inner reality is the same - all your tensions will disappear. And the energy that is involved in tensions will start becoming your grace, your beauty.

  Rajneesh

  God, Reality, Grace

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• God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.

  Rajneesh

  God, Lotuses, Consciousness

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• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

  William Gurnall

  Doctrine, Mystery, Wells

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.564

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• Godliness is practical religion.

  Orville Dewey

  Practicals

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• Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

  Rajneesh

  God, Quality, Looks

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