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Saying "I'm fine" to keep the peace, when we're really not fine, isn't honest. It may seem godly in the moment, but it's false godliness. Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand. The minute we divorce one from the other, we stray from soul integrity and give a foothold to the instability that inevitably leads to coming unglued.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand.
- Lysa TerKeurst
And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.
- Lysa TerKeurst
let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
- Lysa TerKeurst
If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.
- Paul Washer
It is not to learn the form of the doctrine of godliness, but to get the power of it implanted in our souls.
- John Owen
Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.
- Gloria Steinem
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
- JC Ryle
Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.
- Thabiti M. Anyabwile
The spiritually-minded man putteth care of himself before all cares; and he who diligently attendeth to himself easily keepeth silence concerning others. Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself. If thou think wholly upon thyself and upon God, what thou seest out of doors shall move thee little. Where art thou when thou art not present to thyself?
- Thomas a Kempis
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
Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
- Charles Dickens