Quotes About Godliness

Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? Acts 3:12

None of us possesses enough power or godliness to enact a miracle in someone else's life on our best day. "Faith expressing itself through love" is a miracle in itself.

This one is so important! We'll let David, a man who certainly fell into sin after godliness, introduce it to us through his very private prayer. He wrote:

Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

But it seemed that that would spoil the symmetry of the room, and in hospitals symmetry ranked just a short head behind cleanliness and a whole length in front of Godliness.

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

Learn to take sin seriously—be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin's power and live a holy and godly life.

A godlikeness of character is the Christian's proper heritage in this earthly walk.

A godly person—one who serves Christ and exhibits purity and integrity in his life—is not necessarily welcomed or admired by those who live differently. They may even react in scorn, or refuse to include a christian in their social gatherings because his very presence is a rebuke to them.

Thought for today: We are saved, called with a holy calling-called to be saints, holy, pure, Godlike, sons with power.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

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

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

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

To be holy is to live in a way that reflects the moral perfection of God; it is to live a life marked by love, purity, and righteousness, which are the three most important hallmarks of perfect behavior.

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.

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

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

Ä°nsan Tanr? gibi, baÅŸard??? iÅŸlere dönüp k?vanç duyabiliyorsa, Tanr?n?n öbür niteliklerini de paylaÅŸmaya hak kazan?r.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

How godlike, how immortal, is he?