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

  Rajneesh

  God, Men, He Man

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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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• 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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• 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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• Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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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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• 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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• You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

  Rajneesh

  God, World, Cease

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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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• Truthfulness is godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truthfulness

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• You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

  Rajneesh

  God, Praying, Flowering

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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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• Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say God is love, love is only one of the qualities of God; he may have other qualities: wisdom, justice, etcetera. To me, love is God; godliness is only one of the qualities of love. There is no other God than the fragrance of love. But the fragrance can arise only in deep meditation.

  Rajneesh

  God, Jesus, Love Is

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