Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mignon McLaughlin

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

Marcus Garvey

No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

Marcus Garvey

God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.

Sojourner Truth

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Pat Robertson

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

Jase Robertson

If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.

David Barton

When you put ungodly people in office you put ungodly principles in office. God can't bless ungodly principles therefore God can't bless you for promoting ungodly principles. If you put Godly people in office you put Godly in office God can bless Godly principles therefore he can bless you for promoting Godly principles.

J. C. Ryle

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

Abraham Lincoln

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

J. I. Packer

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

Jerry Bridges

The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet.

John Calvin

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

John Calvin

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

John Calvin

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

John Calvin

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

John Wesley

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree...

Martin Luther

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

Henri Nouwen

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Malcolm X

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

Max Beerbohm

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Matisyahu

When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

Ellen G. White

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

Thomas Watson

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

John Bevere

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

John Shelby Spong

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

Thomas a Kempis

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Jonathan Edwards

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

Phil Robertson

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Peter Marshall

Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

Joyce Meyer

If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.