Godliness Quotes
132 quotes by 84 authors
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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
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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
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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…
— Tom Robbins
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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…
— Erma Bombeck
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Harmony is next to Godliness
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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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…
— D. A. Carson
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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…
— Mike Yaconelli
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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…
— John Steinbeck
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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
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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
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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…
— Gerry Spence
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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
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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…
— Charles Dickens
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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…
— Alistair Begg
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
— Jonathan Edwards
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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…
— Joshua Harris
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Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is content to rely…
— Howard W. Hunter
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The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves…
— Kevin DeYoung
Who Wrote These Godliness Quotes
84 authors contributed a total of 132 Godliness Quotes, led by these top contributors: