“It is going to be so frightening, we are all going to tremble – even the godliest among us.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
I told a retired Baptist pastor, who I still regard as one of the kindest and godliest men I have known, that I was on the road to Catholicism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So she followed him into the presence of Naomi, whom she saluted after the godliest and goodliest fashion, and, when she looked on her, she was confounded at her exceeding seemliness and said to her, “O my lady, I commend thee to the safeguard of Allah, who made thee and thy lord fellows in beauty and loveliness!” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Again, the flashes of mordant humour, which not your godliest Irishman can ever wholly subdue; or the sudden, caustic, thumb-nail sketch of friend or foe: these were so familiar to him as to seem his own: while the practical Irish habit of stripping things of false sentiment was homely and refreshing. ❋ Unknown (2003)
God finally intended and brought to passe, as the wisest and godliest prelates and counsellors of those dayes (so counted of and recorded) coulde best aduise and direct him, or perchance, but sincerely commend and duetifully incourage him in, he being of himselfe so bent, as purposing first inuincibly to fortifie the chiefe and vttermost walles of his Islandish Monarchie, against all forreine encombrance possible. ❋ Unknown (2003)
What a taking thing is it to be cried up as the ablest and godliest man in the country, to be famed through the land for the highest spiritual excellencies! ❋ 1615-1691 (1974)
One of our godliest helpers has a powerful voice, but sometimes inserts a sort of sentimental tremolo into his singing, which makes it distinctly suggestive of the bleating of a sheep. ❋ W. E. Sellers (N/A)
His father was a cheerful and exemplary Christian, and his mother was the godliest woman I ever knew. ❋ Rev. John Gerardus Fagg (N/A)
With these words the great book ends -- the diary of one of the godliest and most lecherous of men. ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)
The elders, one by one, gripped the minister's hand in the vestry, and, though plain, homely men, they were the godliest in the glen; but no man spoke save Burnbrae. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)
Prayer meetings, missionary meetings, convention meetings, all that sort of thing I could put up with somehow; but when it came to private exhortations and prayer over me with three or four of the godliest neighbours, I made up my mind not to put up with it one day longer. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
If cleanliness is a near neighbor to godliness, then was the big rebel the godliest man in my ward that day. ❋ Unknown (1863)
I know my men; and I tell you that many of those that you call Independents, that you call Anabaptists, Sectaries, and what not, are among the stoutest and godliest in England, and will go as far as any. ❋ David Masson (1864)
Ahab become his vassal (Nay, his villain), and not only pay him a tribute out of what he has, but make over his title to Ben-hadad, and hold all at his will, even his wives and children, the godliest of them. ❋ Unknown (1721)
And al that, so highly and faithfully to the glory of God finally intended and brought to passe, as the wisest and godliest prelates and counsellors of those dayes (so counted of and recorded) coulde best aduise and direct him, or perchance, but sincerely commend and duetifully incourage him in, he being of himselfe so bent, as purposing first inuincibly to fortifie the chiefe and vttermost walles of his Islandish ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)
-Person 1: So what did you think of [that film]? I [found it] really cool
-Person 2: To be honest, I agree. I found it rather [godliest] ❋ HJx (2009)