“Well, a lot of times we are looking for a sign that tells us we're godly. We want to preach, or be a missionary or whatever, all to help ourselves believe that God is using us. We look everywhere but to God to make us feel godly. We try to convince others we are godly so that we can convince ourselves we are godly. The bottom line is that godliness is about relationship, not about image”

— Donald Miller

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

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Donald Miller (1971) American writer

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

“If God be in all things, as in all men, the wicked as the godly, wherein then is the state of the wicked worse than the godly? Yea, if God be in both, why have they both one title, but one wicked, another godly?”

Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) English theologian

A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)

“And with animals, if we approach them in a rational way we shall find a trace of the intelligible in them which is a not unworthy imitation of what is above reason. For if we look at those beings that naturally care for their offspring, we are encouraged to define for ourselves reverently and with godly boldness that God exercises providence in his sovereign uniqueness over all beings.”

Maximus the Confessor (580–662) Christian saint and theologian

Ambiguum 10, 1189B-C; trans. Andrew Louth, Maximus the Confessor (Routledge, 1996) pp. 144 https://books.google.it/books?id=G3ymSgAnzlMC&pg=PA144-145.

“And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended.”

Katherine Harris (1957) U.S. politician

" http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/6298.article", The Florida Baptist Witness newspaper

“Man should not be held as an absolute standard for mankind, but the Godly, the infinite is his goal... Follow without hesitation the voice of your inner self; for it is the Godly in us and leads us not to astray..”

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter

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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