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Truthfulness is godliness.
Harmony is next to Godliness
Godliness is practical religion.
Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.
I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.
I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.
We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.
Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.
The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.