Top 165 Godliness Quotes & Sayings

Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.

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

Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

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 of godliness.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

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.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

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

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

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

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

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

Truthfulness is godliness.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

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.

What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

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

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed with that godliness in mind.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Godliness is practical religion.

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

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness.

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

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

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

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

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

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

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.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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.

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Harmony is next to Godliness

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

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?

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

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

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

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.

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

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

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