And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away. .... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. 'Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.'
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
Of what in other worlds shall be - and given
In beauty by our God, to those alone
Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven
Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone,
That high tone of the spirit which hath striven
Though not with Faith - with godliness - whose throne
With desperate energy 't hath beaten down;
Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.
We start down a rough road when we begin to mix compulsory public education with compulsory 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.
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leane.
We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.
A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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