Quotes and Sayings About Godly
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I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.
-- Aaliyah -
What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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 -
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
-- Alan Watts -
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.
-- Alexander Clark -
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
-- Alice Walker -
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.
-- Andrew Wommack -
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
-- Angela Merici -
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...
-- Anne Royall -
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
-- Annie Proulx -
God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
-- Barbara Johnson -
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.
-- Benjamin Banneker -
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
-- Billy Graham -
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
-- Billy Graham -
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
-- Billy Graham -
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
-- Billy Graham -
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
-- Billy Sunday -
I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
-- Billy Sunday -
In order to live as we were designed to live, we must be in pursuit not simply of manhood but of godly masculinity. That begins by being men who are rightly related to God, who understand what it means to fear him, and who respond to that fear by being alert, standing firm in the faith, and being men of courage.
-- Bob Lepine -
If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.
-- Bruce Wilkinson -
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
-- C. S. Lewis -
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
-- Charles Grandison Finney -
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
-- Charles Morgan -
Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
-- Charles Stanley -
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt -
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt
