Top 100 A Godly Quotes
#1. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#2. Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world.
Billy Graham
#3. In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.
Anne Ortlund
#4. A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
Elizabeth George
#5. Thus, a believer may ask four questions: What does God's law require? How can I gain godly character? How can I find God's path for me? How can I gain wisdom and discernment?
Anonymous
#6. Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. A wonderful truth engulfed her. She was safe. They were all still safe. As long as they followed the ways of God, they had nothing to fear. He was holy - but he was just. And as long as they followed their godly leaders - like Peter, like Stephen - they would remain protected and on the right path.
Janette Oke
#8. A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.
Rick Warren
#9. What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.
Elizabeth George
#10. 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.
Joyce Meyer
#11. Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#12. The dreams of a pure life,
The dreams of a loving wife,
Find pleasure in a Godly life.
The Wife S.R.
#13. Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.
James C. Dobson
#14. Doubt treats God's Word as human advice - but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.
Jim George
#15. 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
#16. Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man. But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well. For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly.
John Bunyan
#17. As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.
Elizabeth George
#18. We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.
David Barton
#20. Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step of obedience for you as a parent and provides godly direction for your child.
John C. Broger
#21. Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, godly man in the church, which gives men a great mission in the church to influence these kids.
Tony Evans
#22. 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
#23. When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.
Rick Warren
#25. He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in.
David Letterman
#26. A true knight is cleanly as well as godly, the old man always said, insisting that they wash themselves head to heels every time the moon turned, whether they smelled sour or not.
George R R Martin
#27. Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#29. What did you say, Arthur?"
"I said, how the hell did you get here?"
"I was a row of dots flowing randomly through the Universe. Have you met Thor? He makes thunder."
"Hello," said Arthur. "I expect that must be very interesting."
"Hi," said Thor, "it is.
Douglas Adams
#30. Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.
George W. Bush
#31. A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy
An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
#32. The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.
Joseph Prince
#33. I read a story about an old gentlemen who was known for his godly life. Someone asked him one day, "What do you do when you are tempted, old man?" He replied, "I just look up to Heaven and say, 'Lord, your property is in danger.'
Greg Laurie
#34. I decided to throw out everything I thought I knew about following Christ, being a woman, being a godly wife, masculinity, and marriage.
April Cassidy
#35. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.
Franklin Graham
#36. God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.
Charles R. Swindoll
#37. In a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
Margaret Deland
#38. When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.
Rick Warren
#39. Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop.
Tony Evans
#41. When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.
Elizabeth George
#42. 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.
Billy Graham
#43. I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
Joyce Meyer
#44. Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
Francis Schaeffer
#45. Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
Robert Sheckley
#46. I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be - yet, Kristin, 'tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God's word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.
Sigrid Undset
#47. Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable?
Paul David Washer
#48. A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.
Phil Pringle
#49. While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [ ... ] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#50. Such a nation (living godly) will dwell in refuge. Meaning secured, protected, safe etc.
Sunday Adelaja
#51. The danger with relationships when we are vulnerable is that we may not be able to evaluate them honestly and from a godly perspective. What is bitter may look sweet because of our weakened position.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#52. Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).
Richard Baxter
#53. To see in the past that very godly people were able to maintain bizarre interpretations of Scripture should be a caution for us all.
Mark A. Noll
#54. Jesus Is The Resurrection, therefore, Resurrection Is Not A Thing Or An Event, RESURRECTION Is A PERSONALITY.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#55. God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.
Elizabeth George
#56. To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment
discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.
Jim George
#58. A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.
Elizabeth George
#59. I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.
Walter Wink
#60. Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.
Jonathan Falwell
#61. When Christ- followers act from a place of godly character - when they keep the big picture in mind, when they put others' needs ahead of their own, when they order lives according to kingdom priorities - things change. Big things change.
Bill Hybels
#62. A man may cry out against sin in principle; but he cannot abhor it except by virtue of a godly aversion against it. I have heard many cry out against sin in the pulpit, but who still live with it without any problem in their heart, house, and everyday life.
John Bunyan
#63. To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.
Jim George
#64. He underlines the solemn truth that even in the highest religious positions men may degenerate into crass materialists living only for today. Proximity to sacred things does not of itself make a man holy. A sacred office may not give rise to sacred thoughts and a godly life.
Leslie Hardinge
#66. That's the difference between a godly person and an atheist. Our stories are shorter and don't assume the protagonist is an idiot.
P.Z. Myers
#67. Christ is in me ... Christ is my life, this is why i live the higher life ... and the reason why i am more than a conqueror!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#68. I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
Imelda Marcos
#69. Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it's a compliment.
Marilynn Dawson
#70. Words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.
Frederick Buechner
#71. A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.
Charles R. Swindoll
#72. We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.
Tony Evans
#73. He'd learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.
Rick Riordan
#74. Heaven is a condition and a sanctified nature toward which all godly striving tends; it is not a place to be found by walking through the right door with a heavenly hall pass.
Terryl L. Givens
#76. What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required?
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#77. It is absolutely necessary that we live a righteous and a Godly life and be an example of a virtuous man to other people. Our authority and power in the spirit realm will be unlimited if we will fully put ourselves under the laws of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change.
Annie Proulx
#79. 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
#80. Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
Edwin Louis Cole
#81. 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
#82. When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.
Marian Wright Edelman
#84. And then one day the sun was bright, the wind was strong and my eyes shone with a godly light
Anubhav Mishra
#85. 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
#86. Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#87. 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 Bevere
#88. 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
#89. At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
John Piper
#90. Choosing a gentle reply doesn't mean you're weak; it actually means you possess a rare and godly strength.
Lysa TerKeurst
#91. 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
#92. The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It's a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is the key to being a godly woman. It is also the path to joy.
Barbara Hughes
#93. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.
Nancy B. Brewer
#94. I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.
Anne Graham Lotz
#95. She had a brother. Yet she had claimed she'd be alone if the camp sorted her by her godly parent.
Rick Riordan
#96. When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.
Stormie O'martian
#97. everyone who wants to live a godly life in King Jesus will be persecuted,
N. T. Wright
#98. The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
W. Somerset Maugham
#99. Have we ever considered that Godly morals might be the precision-crafted keys that effortlessly turn the tumblers of life? And have we considered that anything else is something like a rough screwdriver trying to force a lock open?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#100. Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
