Top 36 Godliness Cleanliness Quotes
#1. Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity.
Graham Greene
#2. Literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.
Stephen King
#3. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Margaret Atwood
#4. Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
Dan Groat
#6. Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
#7. If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.
Alistair Begg
#8. Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.
Rebecca Wells
#9. Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.
Maya Angelou
#10. Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Let grace microwave your cold heart. "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). When you do, you'll find yourself joining the ranks of the truly wealthy. You'll be rich with grace.
Max Lucado
#12. Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. Your name is Shortcut?"
"Yep."
"Can you give us a real name for our records?"
"Mr. Shortcut.
Michael La Ronn
#15. Milky and opaque, it has the pinkish bloom of the sky on a summer evening, ripening to rain.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#18. If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn't next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.
Tom Robbins
#19. Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The
Maya Angelou
#20. Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
Erma Bombeck
#21. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Carl Van Vechten
#22. The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer believed in the future.
George Packer
#24. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Florynce Kennedy
#25. Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
Meher Baba
#26. The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
Francis Bacon
#28. Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.
Gerry Spence
#29. in Eastern Europe computer privacy is like cleanliness in America: next to godliness. "So
Stephen King
#30. If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.
Jerry Climer
#31. I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Mira Nair
#32. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
Francis Bacon
#33. Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#34. Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.
A.D. Aliwat
#35. Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?
Elizabeth Goudge
#36. Let your hands be clean; God loves clean hands and no wonder cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Israelmore Ayivor