Godly Quotations

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

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word! Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

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

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

She was very godly and just opened her heart to everybody.

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.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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

I am responsible for making sure that all of the church members live a godly life, and if they do not, I am in charge of their discipline.

I always thought we were all godly people, ... I've found out it's very split. I really thought it was better than this.

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

The problem stems from the lack of strong families with parents who hold sound, godly principles. Black men need to overcome anger, so they can take back their lives from the enemies who parade as friends. They must become heads of their families again, and begin to appreciate being productive citizens. Then and only then will we begin to see a change in the black family, which will extend to the community and to the country at large.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future