Godly famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
-- Chris Tomlin -
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party...
-- Common -
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
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.
-- David Barton -
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
-- David Wilkerson -
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
-- David Wilkerson -
The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.
-- Deb Caletti -
One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.
-- Dennis Wholey -
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!
-- E. W. Kenyon -
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
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 -
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
-- Emmet Fox -
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
-- Francine Rivers -
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
-- Francis of Assisi -
We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.
-- Franz Beckenbauer -
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
-- Frederick Buechner -
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
-- Frederick Douglass -
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.
-- Gary Zukav -
Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.
-- Gary Zukav -
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- George V -
Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.
-- George W. Bush -
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
-- George Washington -
To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
-- Georgia Harkness -
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.
-- Gerhard Tersteegen -
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him...
-- Gerhard Tersteegen -
The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.
-- Gerry Spence -
... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over this as at a wedding. It is Christ Himself Who says, 'Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who repents' (Lk. 15:7). For joy, according to the Apostle, is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22), Who through conversion brings back to Christ those living in repentance, and reunites them with Him. And this joy embraces both those in heaven and godly men on earth. That is why there is joy in heaven over one repentant sinner.
-- Gregory Palamas -
I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.
-- Halle Berry -
I know that there is a God - the God within me that's always present and will protect me. I'm not afraid to climb any mountain, because I know that I'm protected. Even if I fall and die, I'm still protected. My faith is on that level.
-- Halle Berry -
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
-- Hudson Taylor -
I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
-- Imelda Marcos -
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.
-- Increase Mather -
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.
-- J. C. Ryle -
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
-- 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.
-- J. I. Packer -
This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.
-- J.R. Miller -
Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.
-- Jack Coe -
You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.
-- Jack Dominian -
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
-- James McGreevey -
While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.
-- James Monroe -
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.
-- James Monroe -
All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.
-- Jeff Iorg -
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.
-- Jeremy Lin -
Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.
-- Jerry Bridges -
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.
-- Jerry Bridges -
Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
-- Jesse Owens -
You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.
-- Jim Berg -
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.
-- Jim Elliot -
What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?
-- Jim Elliot -
Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.
-- Jim George -
Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.
-- Joel Osteen -
No matter how dark it looks, no matter how long it's been, no matter how many people are trying to push you down; if you will stay in faith, God will always take you from Friday to Sunday. He will always complete what He started in you!
-- Joel Osteen
