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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• 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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• Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrisy, Perpetual

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.339

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• 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

  Self, Christ, Capacity

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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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• 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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• If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

  Alistair Begg

  Each Day, Cleanliness, Practicals

  Alistair Begg (2005). “Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith”, p.27, Moody 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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• Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

  Jerry Bridges

  World

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• We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

  Steve Camp

  Perfection, Faithfulness, Obedience

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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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• 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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• So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Church, Three

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• Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Army

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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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• 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

  Children, Heaven, Wickedness

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

  Rajneesh

  God, Men, He Man

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divineness. For the man of prayer there is God; for the man of awareness there is godliness but no God.

  Rajneesh

  God, Prayer, Men

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Landscape, Extinction, Next

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