Godliness Cleanliness Quotes & Sayings

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. — Charles Dickens

Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. — Maya Angelou

Let your hands be clean; God loves clean hands and no wonder cleanliness is next to Godliness. — Israelmore Ayivor

in Eastern Europe computer privacy is like cleanliness in America: next to godliness. "So — Stephen King

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. — Francis Bacon

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. — Francis Bacon

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. — Carl Van Vechten

Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap. — Terry Pratchett

room confirmed the view I had of myself. I always felt as if I had been placed in storage in this house. However, regardless of what it was and what it had been, the room had to be kept as immaculate as any other. My grandmother was fully convinced that cleanliness was next to godliness and was fond of chanting it at me whenever she ordered me to polish or wash — V.C. Andrews

Literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness. — Stephen King

I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living. — Margaret Thatcher

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn't next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. — Tom Robbins

Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria? — Elizabeth Goudge

Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender. — Dan Groat

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The — Maya Angelou

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne. — Jerry Climer

Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity. — Graham Greene

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness. — Alistair Begg

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. — Terry Pratchett

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven. — Erma Bombeck

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. — P. J. O'Rourke

Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere. — Rebecca Wells

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness. — Florynce Kennedy

The love for God is the love for nature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in. — Gerry Spence

Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness. — A.D. Aliwat