“Be diligent with your hands, for godliness does not lead to idleness.”
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Quote from: Caspar David Friedrich, by Irma Emmerich; Herman Böhlaus, Weimar, 1964, p. 11; as cited & transl. by Linda Siegel in Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism, Boston Branden Press Publishers, 1978, p. 4
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“Be diligent with your hands, for godliness does not lead to idleness.”
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
His counsel on Humanism in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 32
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
[N]ur die Höllenfahrt des Selbsterkenntnisses bahnt den Weg zur Vergötterung ...
Ak 6:441
Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
Homilies on Timothy http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf113/Page_429.html, Homily VII
“Now, I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.”
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
Context: Now, therefore, they began to praise, to commend and to speak well of me, both to my face, and behind my back. Now, I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man. But, oh! when I understood that these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well. For though, as yet, I was nothing but a poor painted Hypocrite, yet I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. I was proud of my Godliness, and, indeed, I did all I did, ether to be seen of, or to be well spoken of, by Man.<!--p. 16