Top 245 Godly Quotes & Sayings

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.

When you put ungodly people in office you put ungodly principles in office. God can't bless ungodly principles therefore God can't bless you for promoting ungodly principles. If you put Godly people in office you put Godly in office God can bless Godly principles therefore he can bless you for promoting Godly principles.

If you are godly it has been because you have been made godly.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love casteth out all fear." I promise the bright light of godly fear will chase away the dark shadows of mortal fears as we look to the Savior, build upon Him as our foundation, and press forward on His covenant path with consecrated commitment.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.

I don't want people to think that I'm there politicking for this person or that person. We're not doing that. This is a campaign for God. We need to get godly men and women to run for office, and we need to get the godly men and women out to vote.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.

Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I have been told they have thrown off the mask and are preaching to the people to elect none but godly men to represent them in the General and State Legislatures; ... what they mean by godly people, is people of their own stamp.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party.

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.

When somebody's telling you you're godly and you saved their life, and this and that and the other, I'm going, 'Well, who's saving mine?'

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it.

The majority of my life is spent doing nothing but godly things, especially when it comes to dealing with other people.

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that's certainly isn't what God intended.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.