Godliness Quotes - Page 6

• These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Men, Doctrine, Add

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• I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Pride, Grandmother

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• My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Humanity, Misunderstood, Guilt

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• Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Self, Way, Hell

  "The Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, Ak 6:441, 1797.

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• Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

  Matthew Henry

  Serious, Christianity, Free Thought

  Matthew Henry (1850*). “The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death”, p.202

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• I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  People, Tangible, Able

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• But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

  John Steinbeck

  Cat, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

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• There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ocean

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• The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.

  Rudolf Hess

  Opinion

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• Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, World, Virtue

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• True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

  William Penn

  Men, Self, World

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• Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Humility, Exercise

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• The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Pathways, World, Cheerleader

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• God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Airplane, Self, People

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• We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Self, Decision, Pay

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Stars, Soul

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

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• That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Sex, Love Is

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• There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis.

  Jim George

  Children, Husband, Wife

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.53, Harvest House Publishers

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• If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme leaders of the pre-eminent company of the apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Song, Teacher

  "The homilies".

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• We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Victory, Triumph, Holiness

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• I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

  Vigen Guroian

  Thinking, Religion, Gardening

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Strong, Kings

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• T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

  Adam Nicolson

  Kings, Political, Purpose

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• Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism

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• 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

  Next, Scripture, Sin

  Sermons on Several Occasions Sermon 88 (1788). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Next in this proverb means 'immediately following,' as in serial order." The ODP refers to a passage in Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (1605), reading, "Cleannesse of bodie was euer esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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