Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Ryle

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

J. C. Ryle

True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

The balanced persons will be active because it is their duty. They will not be agitated by anything - failure or success. The Godly will take up activity as a means of worshipping God; and they leave the result to God. They know that they are but instruments in the hands of God.

Jase Robertson

If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.

Max Lucado

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

Max Lucado

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

Max Lucado

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.

Maya Angelou

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Max Beerbohm

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Matisyahu

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.

John Shelby Spong

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

George Foreman

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

Jon Krakauer

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

Nick Vujicic

Wives don't need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider - God!!

John Bevere

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

John Bevere

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Mignon McLaughlin

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

Mignon McLaughlin

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

John Quincy Adams

My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Mike Yaconelli

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

John Wesley

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree...

Jim Elliot

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

Jim Elliot

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

Jim Berg

You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.

Jesse Owens

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

John Piper

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

John Piper

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.

Martin Luther

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

Martin Luther

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Jeff Smith

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.

Halle Berry

I know that there is a God - the God within me that's always present and will protect me. I'm not afraid to climb any mountain, because I know that I'm protected. Even if I fall and die, I'm still protected. My faith is on that level.

Halle Berry

I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.

Hosea Ballou

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