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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.
The majority of my life is spent doing nothing but godly things, especially when it comes to dealing with other people.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.
God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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.
I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
When somebody's telling you you're godly and you saved their life, and this and that and the other, I'm going, 'Well, who's saving mine?'
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.
Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.
No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?
We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.
Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.
If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.
We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.
You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.
I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.
In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.
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.
If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.
I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?
The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.
We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.
It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.
Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.
They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly side, to me, that isn't God, and that isn't love.