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godliness

[ UK /ɡˈɒdlinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. piety by virtue of being a godly person

How To Use godliness In A Sentence

  • Or will God smite them down for partaking in a worldly activity while giving it a smidgen of godliness like those "collectible" coins coated with a veneer of "pure 24k gold!"? The Bilerico Project
  • We prefer to suffer the tortures of the damned than to accept our Godliness.
  • Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase: now here we have some of the expressions of that love. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
  • I am sure you now get the score let man follow the religion he follows his is as good as yours allah ho akbar om mani padme hoon om shanti om let his spirit towards his godliness soar a world in global peace no more unwanted wars Archive 2009-08-01
  • [451] Some read, "ungodliness," but the above seems preferable. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (v. 27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job xv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Conversely, the era of most distant Godliness was the epoch of Noah's Flood.
  • In other words, people's positive influences remain after they have physically departed; true immortality lies in goodness, or godliness.
  • According to Musoke, the "ungodliness" of the tombs was the cause of all the problems in Uganda and had to be destroyed for peace to prevail. New Vision Frontpage News
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