Godliness Quotes

       CHRISTIAN QUOTES ON Godliness. Part of a large selection of Christian quotes and sayings in a variety of topics by famous people, authors, theologians, pastors, preachers, teachers, and other notable Christians.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."     Author: John Wesley Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. It is the damning hypocrisy of this age that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.     Author: Thomas Fuller Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.     Author: William Gurnall Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.     Author: William Carey True godliness leaves the world convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the only explanation for you, is Jesus Christ to whose eternally unchanging and altogether adequate "I AM!" your heart has learned to say with unshatterable faith, "Thou art!"     Author: Major Ian Thomas There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.     Author: Duncan Campbell Godliness is the curious embroidery and workmanship of the Holy Ghost: a soul furnished with godliness is damasked with beauty, and enamelled with purity: this is the "clothing of wrought gold" which makes the King of heaven fall in love with us.     Author: Thomas Watson A man adopts one for his son and heir that does not at all resemble him; but whosoever God adopts for His child is like Him; he not only bears His heavenly Father's name, but His image (Col. 3:10).     Author: Thomas Watson     Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury 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.     Author: Alistair Begg The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.     Author: J.I. Packer You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint.     Author: A.J. Gossip The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.     Author: Joseph Hall