Browsing Topic Best Godly Quotes

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

One and God make a majority.

Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

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.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

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.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it’s going to hate the light. The more it’s going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they’ve embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

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.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

We’ve created the almost godly power of being able to alter the climate, to change the face of the earth, now we need to develop the consciousness of gods, and wield that power wisely

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.

Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life….Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that’s a sure sign that it’s true.

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

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.

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.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

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.

Zen… does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.

But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it’s like glass — serene and calm — and other times it’s raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

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