Quotes about Godliness
See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
— Hebrews 12:16
Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand.
— Lysa TerKeurst
When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.
— AW Tozer
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
— Matthew 5:48
For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
— 1 Timothy 4:8
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
— JC Ryle
Oh, God show me more of Your holiness. Show me more of my sinfulness. Help me to hate sin and to love righteousness as You do. Grant me a deeper conviction of sin and a more thorough spirit of repentance. And make me holy as You are holy.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
If you speak of true honor, it is to be born of God; if of true valor, it is to fight the good fight of faith; if of true delight, it is to have joy in the Holy Spirit. Oh, then, espouse godliness! Here reality is to be had. Of other things we may say, "They comfort in vain!" (Zech. 10:2)
— Thomas Watson
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
— JI Packer
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
— Jonathan Edwards
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