Godliness Quotes

“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”
― Tom Robbins

“If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.”
― Alistair Begg

“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.

And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that--events beyond the will of the gods--and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.”
― Steven Erikson

“Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" --

"Pagan that you are! what does that signify?"

"I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence: the stregth which could bear a thousand years of bondage, -- the vitality which could feed that vulture death through uncounted ages, -- the unexhausted life and uncorrupted excellence, sisters to immortality, which after millenniums of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. ...
I saw -- I now see -- a woman-Titan: her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil white as an avalanche sweeps from hear head to her feet, and arabesques of lighting flame on its borders. Under her breast I see her zone, purple like that horizon: through its blush shines the star of evening. Her steady eyes I cannot picture; they are clear -- they are deep as lakes -- they are lifted and full of worship -- they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers: she reclines her bosom on the ridge of Stilbro' Moor; her mighty hands are joined beneath it. So kneeling, face to face she speaks with God. That Eve is Jehova's daughter, as Adam was His son.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

“Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Fruitful Life

“...you have to be godly to be wise ...”
― Derek Kidner

“(The carnal mind) is dead set against the wisdom and counsel of God, as revealed in his Word, and therefore is emphatically described as being at enmity against God (Rom. 8:7). It is so impertinent that it considers the practice of godliness, demanded by God in his Word, as pure madness and foolishness (2 Kings 9:11; 1 Cor. 1:18). Indeed, it regards the desire to live a holy life… as no better than prudishness, legalism, and hypocrisy. The carnal mind will never accept bending, yielding, and subjecting all things to the service of God in order to give first priority to the practice of true godliness. Anything rather than that! On the contrary, the carnal mind wants true godliness – indeed, everything – to bend, yield, and be made subject to its own plans and pursuits.

The carnal mind devises a certain way of Christian life through which it imagines that God as well as man can be satisfied. Carnal man is willing to do certain things that God requires, such as giving money to the poor, going to church, and even partaking of the Lord’s Supper. However, other things that God also requires, such as instructing one’s household in the fear of the Lord, regularly visiting the sick, and comforting the poor, are not considered necessary or important. Carnal man rejects those things, not taking the slightest interest in them. Yet the things he himself has chosen he regards as the only right and reasonable Christian way of life. Everything outside of this he calls insincerity, prudishness, narrow-mindedness, superstition, or hypocrisy. Everything that does not fit into his own self-approved program he considers lukewarm, careless, slothful, or ungodly. Truly, these people are foolish because they deceive their own hearts with false arguments, as the apostle James explains when, for those very reasons, he declares that “this man’s religion is vain” (James 1:26).”
― Willem Teellinck, The Path of True Godliness

“Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you can't find God in people, your God is dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We are the God,
We are the Goblins.
Amidst fanatic foolery
we are divine lightning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Only food haram is the food unshared,
Only kafir in cosmos is person apathetic.
Only being blasphemous is being bigoted,
Goodwill is godliness, wholeness holistic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Above all hagiographies, human is real,
There's nothing more divine than human.
Godliness unfolds only through humanness,
Only sin in the world is the sin of division.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We don't need to believe in a grand design to be good people, but we do need to be good people to create a grand design. It's neither about atheism, nor about the so-called religiousness - rather it's about plain, ordinary humanness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Oneness is godliness in action.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“My divinity is not rooted in god or scripture, my divinity is rooted in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“This life is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished, but it is actively going on. This is not the goal, but it is the right road. At present, everything does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed.”
― Martin Luther

“Where God retreats,
Human must step in.
Where myths fall short,
Mind must intervene.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Advance of Human is advance of God. Wishful indolence is religion of the cod.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Where God retreats, Human must step in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Neurons are the birthplace of God,
Neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.
Life is a concoction of neurochemistry,
Boon and bane are both our own making.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Pocket Book of Consciousness

“If I Wrote God (A Naturalist's Letter)

If I wrote God, they'd would be
kind and gentle, not vengeful and jealous.
Freedom of choice would be first commandment,
preventing wrongs they'd stand righteous.

They'd refuse to entertain suffering,
their grand design would epitomize equality.
Sure, their world would still have problems,
but it would be spared from ungodly atrocity.

Law of Nature is its lack of meaning,
as well as its lack of morality.
We needed an image to bear the blame,
and be the imaginary steward of our destiny.

True godliness lies in behavior, not belief.
Hand of God unfolds when human takes the steed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Pocket Book of Consciousness

“True godliness lies in behavior, not belief. Hand of God unfolds when human takes the steed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Pocket Book of Consciousness

“Love thy neighbor as thy God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Jesus and Lucifer, are all in the mind - in hate we fall, in goodness, divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“You know what is the real god particle? You are. Every person who refuses to entertain division and discrimination in any form, is the practicing god particle of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets

“Godmind, Sonnet 2101

Come, look into my eyes,
you'll smell the soil from Tabriz,
chiming with the whirlwind of Konya.
Come, peer into my endless abyss,
fused with the fragrance of Bethlehem,
you'll feel the breeze from Bodh Gaya.

Don't be intimidated, just let it go,
let the chaff of creed become compost.
The vastness I live is the vastness in you,
yet it seems alien, for you're grazing like cod.

Nothing's out there except our image,
whatever is there, is right here.
Origin of universe is too stoic an undertaking,
you just act human, right now and here.

If boson is god particle of the universe,
human is the god particle of society.
Life is divine, when instrument of love,
human is the heart particle of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets

“God is tolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood