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Quotes About Godly

Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to the words of the prophet, "I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;
~ John Calvin
It is one of the tricks of Satan   to defraud godly ministers of support, that the Church may be deprived   of such ministers.
~ John Calvin
The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify them. The afflictions of the godly crucify them. And when I am come to that conformity with my Saviour, as to fulfill his sufferings in my fiesh, (as I am, when I glorify him in a Christian constancy and cheerfulness in my afflictions) then I am crucified with him, carried up to his cross...
~ John Donne
The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify them. The afflictions of the godly crucify them. And when I am come to that conformity with my Saviour, as to fulfill his sufferings in my flesh, (as I am, when I glorify him in a Christian constancy and cheerfulness in my afflictions) then I am crucified with him, carried up to his cross...
~ John Donne
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.
~ John Piper
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
~ Joyce Meyer
I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly side, to me, that isn't God, and that isn't love.
~ Michaela Coel
they give me the same sense of being official, public, godly utterances which the preacher stands behind but as a human being somehow does not stand in. Whatever passionate and private experience their sermons may have come from originally, you are given little or no sense of what that private experience was. At their best they bring many strengths with them into the pulpit but rarely, as I listened to them anyway, their real lives.
~ Frederick Buechner
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.
~ Charles Stanley
A faithless preacher with a good manner and voice will always convert more than a limp-handed long-faced fool, no matter how Godly.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's always annoying to the godly when the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The statement that Abraham's descendants shall "possess the gate of their enemies" is the promise of spiritual and cultural dominance of the godly covenant people.
~ John Jefferson Davis
Ethos can amplify the preacher's message, but it cannot serve as a substitute for the authority of the biblical text. Good ethos is not a guarantee of good results. Godly preachers like Jeremiah are sometimes ignored, while surly and self-centered preachers like Jonah may be heeded beyond all expectation.
~ John Koessler
When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.
~ Elizabeth George
What has just been pointed out reveals a principle which is of great practical value for our own souls today. The further Israel's religious apostasy advanced and wickedness increased, the more were the godly handful among them taught to look away from the present to the future, to walk by faith and not by sight, to regale their desponding hearts with those covenant blessings which the Messiah would obtain for all His people.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle in your own heart. Say to God, "If you will give me a vision of what a godly spouse would look like, then I'm willing to make changes." Then read the Bible and look for those passages that tell you what a Christian husband or wife should be. Let this be your dream, and meditate on it throughout the day. Ask God to help you live up to his model.
~ Gary Chapman
But let the godly rejoice. Let them be glad in God's presence. Let them be filled with joy. —Psalm 68:3
~ Gary Chapman
He said I had been touched by a god, and that I am a holy man. I said, "If I have been touched by a god, it was only to curse me." He nodded. "All who are touched by gods are holy.
~ Gene Wolfe
Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against injustice at a larger societal level. I've enjoyed playing both the characters.
~ Puneet Issar
One of the marks of a godly woman is that she takes responsibility for her soul's need for joy and delight. A woman is a conductor, who leads the orchestra of her surroundings in the songs and music of her life. God is a God of creativity and dimension, and so He is pleased when we we co-create beauty in our own realm, through the power of His Spirit. It was a profound realization when I understood that I could become an artist with my very life.
~ Sally Clarkson
I didn't think I was the only one who loved my children but struggled with isolation and boredom in the sometimes overwhelming details of daily life. I believed that, among like-minded women, there was a need for community as we strived to raise godly children without many people to teach us or to share our burden.
~ Sally Clarkson
I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be—yet, Kristin, 'tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God's word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.
~ Sigrid Undset
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.
~ John Piper