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Quotes About Godly

Lord Jesus, I do love You and most earnestly worship You. Help me today, please, to be even the palest reflection of that completeness that was and is Yours. Then I, like a tiny sliver of glass that glitters in the sunshine, will reflect back to the world Your godly brightness. Amen. —JEANIE GUSHEE
~ David P. Gushee
The godly shall seek God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The godly shall pray to God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
while godly thought emphasizes giving God the honor and service in His church that He deserves totally apart from whether your needs are met or not.
~ Jay E. Adams
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.
~ Elizabeth George
When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.
~ Elizabeth George
As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.
~ Elizabeth George
Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves a good-humoured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr a godly matron who was nevertheless all too human when it came to a handsome rogue.
~ Alison Weir
For a sweet moment, the weight of human and godly concerns lifted from Justin, and he was left only with the memory of that kiss.
~ Richelle Mead
The possibility of sadness is tightly bound to the capacity for joy. A godly sadness is as precious in the eyes of the Lord as the joy that corresponds to it.
~ Robert Campbell Roberts
We are religious by nature.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.
~ Zeena Schreck
Christians who live to be pleasing to God are so spiritually attractive that people want to know what makes them stand apart.
~ Zig Ziglar
Paint the picture of your life with godly decisions and you will never be ashamed to attach your signature to the portrait you create."—IKE REIGHARD
~ Zig Ziglar
you have to be godly to be wise ...
~ Derek Kidner
Jeremiah and Jesus indicted people then, and now. The ancient Temple, and the present-day church, should be places where people not only find community, welcome the stranger, and repent of their sins. They should be places where people promise to live a godly life, and then keep their promises.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
what he wanted most, was godly men, men of faith and discipline, who were prepared if needs be to die: 'For the man who is willing to die will always be your master.
~ Robert Harris
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
~ Alan Bennett
You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
There is no condition that a godly man or woman can be in, but there is some promise or other in the Scripture to help him in that condition. And that is the way of his contentment, to go to the promises, and get from the promise, that which may supply. This is but a dry business to a carnal heart; but it is the most real thing in the world to a gracious heart: when he finds lack of contentment he repairs to the promise, and the Covenant, and falls to pleading the promises that God has made.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Now carnal hearts do not find that power in the Word, that healing virtue that is in it, to heal their distracting cares, and the troubles of their spirits; but when those who are godly come to hear the Word, they find in it, as it were, a plaster for all their wounds, and so they come to have ease and contentment in such conditions as are very grievous and miserable to others.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Chapter 1 Prayer Points Pray for President Trump to walk humbly. Pray Proverbs 16:7, Psalm 25:9, Micah 6:8, Colossians 3:12-13, and James 4:10 over him. Pray for godly counsel to be released to President Trump and received by him. Pray Proverbs 19:20-21 over him. A Shocking Visit to the White House In a prophetic dream in early February of 2019, I arrived at the White House in a white limousine.
~ Jeremiah Johnson
Many people will profess faithfulness, but few will demonstrate it. The virtue of faithfulness is often costly, and few people are willing to pay the price. But for the godly person, faithfulness is an absolutely essential quality of his character, regardless of what it might cost.
~ Jerry Bridges