How To Use Godly In A Sentence

He waited there while the cathedral began to reverberate with a lovely, godly music. THE BROKEN GOD
It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
Techies are used to spending an ungodly amount of time mining virtual coins in online games.
In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him). Cinematical

And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
I'm enraged by this ungodly act and my heart breaks for these families.
There's something ungodly about it.
In order to reach their goals for conversion, they actively coerced the children into condemning their traditional religiosity and spiritualism as ungodly rites, rituals, and idolatry.
They are wicked, ungodly sinners.
When the old woman had made an end of her ablution, she came up to where he sat, and prayed a two bow prayer; after which she blessed my brother with a godly benediction, and he while thanking her put his hand to the dinars and gave her two, saying to himself “These are my voluntaries.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
God ... brought Daniel into favour -- The favor of others towards the godly is the doing of God. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She hurried home and pleaded with her husband to attend the next Bible study and to come under the counsel of this godly pastor. Christianity Today
The film follows an ubergeek in his ungodly pursuit of Alison, the girl of his dreams.
Of all my second viewing fluctuations, I'm most pleased to say that the cast entire fares much better when not jumping off the screen like flimsy cardboard cutouts, which is to say that I no longer feel so ungodly embarrassed for the lot of them. Avatar: Notes on a Second Viewing
Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His faith in God was more than talk; it was expressed by godly living.
Faithfulness to His promises to preserve the godly, as well as stern execution of judgment on the ungodly, is included in Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But so seldom do we hear of a godly woman - or of a godly man either, for that matter.
As the debate rages in the West about the ungodly behavior of godly men, a series of sex scandals involving India's assortment of god men -- called sadhu, baba or swami -- is making skeptics out of many Indians. Swami Sex Scandals Have India Questioning An Ancient Traditiong
My crazy sister and sane brother attended one of these meetings in a Church and my brother asked her why she talking politics in Church and not talking about the corruptness and greed warned about in the Bible and crazy Shelly just blew him off and kept on with her right wing political agenda while reminding everyone how ‘Godly’ she was … … Puke! Think Progress » Despite His Stimulus Bashing, Almost A Third Of Pawlenty’s Budget Relies On Stimulus Money
This ungodly revelation seems to fly in the face of his Christian faith.
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)
Last night, the Situation and company — all vulgar human muppets with no real skills and an ungodly orange glow — went right back to being harbingers of the apocalypse as they alternately got trashed, bitched about each other and freaked out over Angelina replacement Deena, a hard-partying "gremlin lookalike" per Ronnie's evaluation who just so happens to be besties with Snooki. Watercooler: More Trash Washed Up on the Jersey Shore
Then they saw the need of delay, before completely punishing the wicked, to give space for repentance, or else for accumulation of wrath (Ro 2: 15); and before completely rewarding the godly, to give room for faith and perseverance in tribulation (Ps 92: 7-12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Still, the prospect of turning up in Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, at the ungodly hour of 4am provoked anxiety.
It means exercising profound, even godly humility, opening yourself to learn something previously unimaginable about the fundaments of your life with God-and to learn it from ‘the least of these.’
A flunky turned up with a fleet of coaches at some ungodly hour of the morning, and after an endless drive into the countryside, we were herded into an aircraft hangar in the middle of nowhere.
He came to die for the ungodly and offer Himself as a sacrifice to God for their salvation.
They have nothing to do with spiritual knowledge or godly religious life.
Majestie in erth, making the Saitt of justice, quhilk aucht to be the sanctuary and refuge of all godlie and vertuouse personeis, injustlie afflictit, to be ane den and receaptakle to thevis, murtheraris, idolateris, huremongaris, adulteraris, and blasphemaris of God and all godlynes. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
My favourite reactions I received were of the religious type, attempting to open my eyes to a Godly world and save my soul from damnation.
With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
Now, it is at this ungodly hour that I intended to book a date for my medical examination (if not for the frailties of technology).
So, it was back up to the surgery this morning, at the ungodly hour of nine o'clock.
Usually the public discussion between the godly and ungodly takes unuseful forms. Times, Sunday Times
He was no favourer of his friends in his judgments, for he valued more godly justice than the distinctions of rank. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
Those whose souls are sorrowful in the Lord, who sow in tears and sorrow after a godly sort, need not question but that in due time their souls shall be joyful in the Lord; for gladness is sown for them, and they shall at last enter into the joy of their Lord. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
To that extent The Book Against God is not against God or the godly, although it offers no comfort to either.
“From the Christian perspective, we think in terms of prayer, we think in terms of what we call godly counsel, where godly men who are clean themselves insert themselves in the life of the one who is struggling,” London said. Fundy Ted Haggard’s “Restoration” « UDreamOfJanie
They live on the margins, working ungodly hours on below minimum wages, almost not breathing in order to avoid detection.
And though most students may pour scorn on those who peel themselves out of bed at some ungodly hour to do the bidding of some midget cox, one must admire their strength.
I yawned as we sat, waiting for a plane ungodly early that morning.
Jests against religion, sneers at the piety of the godly, irreverent and shocking swearing, and a boastful parade of the immoralities they have committed make up the conversation, I fear, of some circles.
Such he was in godly firmness, in spite of his people's opposition, according to the divine command to the priest tribe to which he belonged (De 33: 9). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who saith: ‘Who is ungodlier than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?’” Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
His cover as Godly son of the manse is blown to smithereens. The Ghost Of Leaders Past
His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins.
You spend the ungodly early hours of the morning writing about hope for a world beyond empire, beyond greed, beyond humanity's frailty.
Tonight of all nights I was glad to find them still refreshingly cheerful, even at this ungodly hour. NIGHT SISTERS
Godly edifying is the end ministers should aim at in all their discourses, that Christians may be improving in godliness and growing up to a greater likeness to the blessed God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
What was emphasised all round was the priority of preaching the gospel supported by godly living.
Their godly sorrow, a genuine remorse for their sins.
It is a time to gain a new look on life, to purify oneself and to regain the sense of Godly aspiration as the central purpose for this earthly incarnation.
The association with back-breaking labor in ungodly heat and humidity for meager wages or bare-existence trade is how field workers from 1840s to 1970s felt. High Cotton (copy)
The bad news is that in July 2010, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared the country's family planning programme ungodly and announced a new pronatalist policy. Smart family planning improves women's health and cuts poverty
V. We must proclaim the excellencies of Christ via our Godly living.
I had to get up at some ungodly hour in the morning to take her to the airport.
I would love for her to be able to use your old posts for a basic education in godly homemaking. New Book
Hindus do not bury their dead, except infant children and godly saints.
My son and daughter are not just 'doing well,' but rising far above me in godly character, enthusiasm for what God is doing in their lives, development of talents, and service to others. Archive 2005-01-01
O Lord, ef I could kneel down hyar and say I repented with godly repentance fer sin and determination never to sin agen, I'd do it, and ask you to pardon me for Jesus 'sake, but I kain't repent -- I jes' kain't! Elder Conklin
He said to a godly minister, who went to see him a little before his death, "I have been a rude stunkard all my life, and now by this pain the Lord is humbling me to make me as a lamb, before he take me to himself. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
We got in at some ungodly hour, had a cup of sweet tea (the cure for everything) and fell into deep, dreamless slumber.
Teaching those “sciences leads to the loss of belief in godly and Islamic knowledge.” Archive 2009-09-01
Most of Philip's cheese comes from the west country, and once a month he gets up at the ungodly hour of 4.30 am for a round trip of the region in his refrigerated van.
Azure or blue, the colour of the fesse, is said to be in heraldry the symbol of a godly disposition, and of a heavenly mind; gules, or red, the colour of the bends or bendlets, is in heraldry the symbol of strength and courage; and argent, or silver, the metal of the plates, the symbol of innocency, and love.
He took note through the clear glass walls of the heptagonal room that the employees were still working, even at the ungodly hour of 4 a.m. on a Sunday morning.
What matters is the sacrifice of godly privilege for the lowliness of humanity, irrespective of gender.
If blame is to be laid, it should be at the feet of a handful of aged and godly spinsters and widows who taught me through my primary education.
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Let us conclude by saying there are godly methods of conducting controversy as well as ungodly methods.
Drawing the short straw, Beattie was charged with leaving the hotel at an ungodly six o'clock in the morning to plug the van's parking meter.
They blamed Katya for introducing them to this ungodly panacea, and demanded that she give them constant access to the house and the Hunt. COLDHEART CANYON
From these psalms we learn that even though distressful situations surround the godly, they may rest assured that God is watching over them.
The hour of Franklin's bedtime is directly proportional to the ungodly early hour he wakes up in the morning.
If blame is to be laid, it should be at the feet of a handful of aged and godly spinsters and widows who taught me through my primary education.
In light of the Word of God does it not follow to reason that true godly music that worships and exalts the Lord Jesus Christ will be rejected by the world?
The Lord grant that hereafter there may be no such complaints in this nation, or [that they] may be causeless, as have been heretofore, -- viz., that we have poured out our prayers, jeoparded our lives, wasted our estates, spent our blood, to serve the lusts and compass the designs of ambitious, ungodly men! The Sermons of John Owen
Far from waiting around resignedly for Christ's arrival, millenarians believed the godly Christian must prepare for Christ's advent by building paradise on earth.
So, it was back up to the surgery this morning, at the ungodly hour of nine o'clock.
Furthermore, I will never bring myself to describe such an intense and ungodly sight as this abomination of evil.
And therefore it is that the time of his preaching is often by himself called the regeneration, which is not properly a kingdom, and thereby a warrant to deny obedience to the magistrates that then were; for he commanded to obey those that sat then in Moses 'chair, and to pay tribute to Caesar; but only an earnest of the kingdom of God that was to come to those to whom God had given the grace to be his disciples and to believe in him; for which cause the godly are said to be already in the kingdom of grace, as naturalized in that heavenly kingdom. Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
The new objects were dismissed by Descartes' disciples, who felt certain that this infidel mathematician and his ungodly ‘discoveries’ could be explained away.
Note, Though godly people may share with the wicked in the calamities of the world, yet wicked people shall have no share with the godly in the heavenly Canaan; but it shall be part of the blessedness of that world that they shall be purged out from among them, the tares from the wheat, the chaff from the corn, ch. xiii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The third and most excellent is this: those singular and natural affections, that loue and tender care, and that fatherly and godly minde of the Islanders towards their children, namely, that they make the same accompt of them, or lesse then they doe of their dogges. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
Therefore it is no wonder if these things which are spoken by our Saviour are not found verbatim in the Jewish pandect; for they are not so much alleged by him to shew that it was their direct design to banish away all reverence and love towards parents, as to show how wicked their traditions were, and into what ungodly consequences they oftentimes fell. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
All the fair working, and all the sweet natural office of dearworthy Motherhood is impropriated [235] to the Second Person: for in Him we have this Godly Will whole and safe without end, both in Revelations of Divine Love
We will have at any rate in our cathedral a decent , godly , modest morning service.
Vain jangling" (1Ti 1: 6, 7) of would-be "teachers of the law." godly edifying -- The oldest manuscripts read, "the dispensation of God," the Gospel dispensation of God towards man (1Co 9: 17), "which is (has its element) in faith. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Bishops seats there is a free schoole founded by the liberality and pietie of that most renoumed King of Denmarke Christian the third: and afterward the sonne following the godly steppes of his most The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Christ came: "All things are now ready"; the salvation is already accomplished, and only waits the Lord's time to be manifested: He "is ready to judge." last time -- the last day, closing the day of grace; the day of judgment, of redemption, of the restitution of all things, and of perdition of the ungodly. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Women were antagonistic to him, and Mrs. Mangan, godly matron though she was, seemed to him to symbolize a very different ordering of life to that which he approved; but the Big Doctor was an asset of the Church who must be simpered upon, and for whose sake a little social boredom must be unrepiningly endured. Mount Music
A godly woman you have known for years and whom you love and know to be absolutely trustworthy tells you she received a Visitation from an angel last night when she was at prayer.
'Twas only when he got aboard that -- that ungodly, kerosene-smellin ', tootin', buzzin ', Old Harry's gocart of his that the craziness begun to show. The Depot Master
The media spin these days would have us believe that the left is godless and the right is godly (hence their election wins last year).
Instead, they directed the church to choose godly men who would be capable of resolving the issue.
Is that really you posting at ungodly hours of the night?
In burghs throughout the country ‘black Genevan ministers and kirk sessions had it in for the ungodly and unchaste, and at one palace or another Buchanan beat learning into young King James.
Although Protestant reformers taught that God had predestined each individual to salvation or damnation, they still expected her to live a godly life, obeying God rather than man.
This and the disciplinary design of trial to the godly is the great lesson of this book. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Yet I may not omitte y "fruite that 'came hearby, for by these so publick trouble, in so many eminente places, their cause became famouss, & occasioned many to looke into y" same; and their godly cariage & Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
everything is black or white...satanic or godly
It was glamorous as always with an ungodly amount of social elites crowding the ballrooms and game rooms.
Contrast "another angel," or messenger, with "the everlasting Gospel," Re 14: 6. through the midst of heaven -- Greek, "in the mid-heaven," that is, in the part of the sky where the sun reaches the meridian: in such a position as that the eagle is an object conspicuous to all. the inhabiters of the earth -- the ungodly, the "men of the world," whose Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Tonight of all nights I was glad to find them still refreshingly cheerful, even at this ungodly hour. NIGHT SISTERS
CEOs rake in ungodly compensations that contribute to the high cost of health care. DNC paints Pawlenty as liar
How great the need to pray as Christ prayed, with strong cryings, and tears, with godly fear! The Weapon of Prayer
Those who scorn to submit to the discipline of religion, scorn to take God's yoke upon them, scorn to be beholden to his grace, who scoff at godliness and godly people, and take a pleasure in bantering and exposing them, God will scorn them, and lay them open to scorn before all the world. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
For a moment, I thought that ordinary, unsanctified citizens might be able to take a look at the decision-making processes of the Godly!
Humble thyself greatly, for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms. Short Story: The Soul Chamber, Part 1
Another sign that Christmas was coming was when we were woken up at a seemingly ungodly hour of the morning when it was still pitch black and freezing!
And pretty it were to see Cicely in her praiseful and godly-walking youth, as she stood primly clad in her sad-colored gown and long apron, with a quoif or ciffer covering her smooth hair, and a red whittle on her slender shoulders, a-singing in the old New England meeting-house through the long, tedious psalms, which were made longer and more tedious still by the drawling singing and the deacons '"lining. Sabbath in Puritan New England
However, I could also blame most of my future health problems and failures to bearably socialize on the ungodly video game, if so many child shrinks and Senators Joseph Lieberman and Herb Kohl would tell me.
It is delightful to see how a good man may live in the midst of the ungodly, and keep his garments unspotted, and his name unsullied by the adverse influences around him. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
Prime ministers and treasurers don't have godly powers.
Well, Elgin would have been forced into rising with the milkman had they departed Moray at some ungodly hour for an earlier start.
Already, Obama's deepened the debt by unGodly factors, and has endangered our soldiers abroad through his muslim brownnosing .... and you say Bush did nothing? President Obama back on the fundraising circuit
It's a guid job that a body can aye gang doon to godly Maister Welsh, though he's an awfu 'body to deave The Lilac Sunbonnet
They blamed Katya for introducing them to this ungodly panacea, and demanded that she give them constant access to the house and the Hunt. COLDHEART CANYON
The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease ( "lees") on the ungodly is hardening: they become stupidly secure (compare Ps 55: 19; Am 6: 1). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
This will not be judged a pernicious doctrine, though some godly men do question the warrantableness of the example. Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion, by John Winthrop
If you can, try to visit the falls in the spring as it is ungodly hot and humid in the summer.
The sooner that they rose, the sharper was their appetite and the barkings of their stomachs, and the gnawings increased in the like proportion, and consequently made these godly men thrice more a-hungered and athirst than when their matins were hemmed over only with three lessons. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
In the time of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn wished to give the post of abbess to a friend, but King Henry had scruples on the subject, for the proposed abbess had a somewhat shady reputation; he wrote, "I would not for all the gold in the world clog your conscience nor mine to make her a ruler of a house, which is of so ungodly a demeanour, nor I trust you would not that neither for brother nor sister I should so bestain mine honour or conscience. From John O'Groats to Land's End
We are a godly people, which makes our enemies ungodly, even demonic.
She also makes it clear why it was doomed, defying as it does every respectable idea about godly behaviour, sexual decorum, female carnality and nature itself.
Let us consider Melchizedek as being a Hierarch, most dear to God; (not of gods which are not, but of the truly most high God); for the godly-wise did not call Melchizedek simply dear to God, but also Priest, in order that they may clearly shew to the wise, that not only was he himself turned to the true Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897)
Or, just perhaps, the prayers of the faithful for deliverance from ungodly rule are at last being heard.
Grant prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of godly friendship.
For (Job 28: 1-28) the ways of divine wisdom in afflicting the godly are inscrutable: all that is sure to man is, the fear of the Lord is wisdom (Job 28: 28). by the hand -- rather, concerning the hand of God, namely, what God does in governing men. with the Almighty -- the counsel or principle which regulates God's dealings. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It surely is not because we are more godly, holy and mature than our friend ever was.
At some ungodly hour, Lutherans from all over the neighbourhood are summarily summoned to church by an extended barrage of random, vigorous and tuneless clanging.
The ungodly are not so, They are like the chaff that the wind driveth away. Who am I
He waited there while the cathedral began to reverberate with a lovely, godly music. THE BROKEN GOD
As Mom faced her illness, she did so in a spirit of fortitude based on an implicit faith and a godly life.
it sounded like a 747 blasting off, the noise ungodly loud in the otherwise silent marina. CORMORANT
And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease ( "lees") on the ungodly is hardening: they become stupidly secure (compare Ps 55: 19; Am 6: 1). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Barb: Give me a wholesome, heterosexually interested man of godly convictions anyday! The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Call for Governmental Suppression of Speech Offensive to Religious Sensibilities
Job, as a godly father, prayed for the spiritual well-being of his family.
With your music and a recording studio at home, how do your neighbours react while you belt out music (and we all know you do it at an ungodly hour)?
Such obedience included acceptance of the Mormon faith through baptism, living a moral and godly life, and the completion of certain ceremonies and ordinances in the temple.
In addition, Protestantism, with its emphasis on ‘godly’ preaching and Bible study, was an academic creed, unattractive to illiterate villagers steeped in the oral traditions and symbolic ritualism of medieval England.
Paul proclaim, "If any man be in Christ Jesus and is a new creature, old limits are passed away, behold all things have become new;" for his ungodly baptised hearers are all new creatures by baptism, and yet their old sinful habits _have not passed away_, and all things have not become new to them. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who saith: 'Who is ungodlier than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?' Thus Spake Zarathustra
Thus did light and darknes stryve within the realme of Scotland; the darknes ever befoir the world suppressing the light, from the death of that notable servand of God, Maister Patrik Hammyltoun, unto the death of Edwarde the Saxt, that most godly and most verteous King that hath bein knowin to have rounge in England, or elles whare, these many yearis bypast, who departed the miserie of this lyef the vj of Julij, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church.
We should be encouraging godly marriages, yes, but we should also be giving singles land to till. Christianity Today
One of the shots is at an elk at some ungodly distance, and you can watch the bull move significantly after you hear the gun go off and before the bullet hits. I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes.
Thankfully, the landlady, a stately, old woman with a reassuring gaze was still awake at this ungodly hour and benevolently helped me into a small room on the first floor.
Inside, a long article about me declared near the top of the story, “Here comes 19-year-old Apolo Ohno, the name summing up divine talent and ungodly trouble,” adding a few sentences later, “Now comes Ohno, a diamond stud in his ear, a whiff of scandal in his wake.” Zero Regrets
Christ rose for each of us, that we might rise above our sin through forgiveness, and live godly lives.
I waited in silence, browsing through my CDs, deciding which one to play, when my meditations were disturbed by an ungodly sound, and the emission of an unrepeatable word from Jo.
I always remember the one year I woke my mum up at some ungodly hour and was convinced I heard reindeers on the roof.
it sounded like a 747 blasting off, the noise ungodly loud in the otherwise silent marina. CORMORANT
To them he was an intriguing miracle worker who dazzled the masses with amazing demonstrations of godly power.
These musicians were less secular stars than quasi-religious figures, and their fans often referred to them with godly reverence.
He make a clean sweep of the ungodly nations.
They expressed their fury with the godly in lewd ballads that echo through Underdown's story.
Under the word transgressor are included all those that disobey their maker, or, in shorter words, the ungodly. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
He was frequently appalled by the boorish and ungodly behavior he witnessed.
I apologize for phoning you at this ungodly hour.
His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins.
Apart from scandals that have rocked the sacred houses, there is an increase in the ungodly activities of the men of the pulpit and some of their flock.
No, really, he did say this, but only because this writer forced him to say it at an ungodly early hour.
We set out at 5am, an ungodly hour for most people, but prime time for a morning person like myself.
The person who is godly has a power within the church that goes beyond any power system. Christianity Today
Fast, seem Godly, Pray, and go to Church - the Rhyme will be left in the lurch else.
“Many of the humanities and liberal arts are based on philosophies whose foundations are materialism and disbelief in godly and Islamic teachings,” Ayatollah Khamenei said at a gathering of university students and professors on Sunday, according to IRNA, the state news agency. Archive 2009-09-01
She let out the clutch, turned the wheel, and discovered that the truck was ungodly heavy. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
The innuendo was that female rule, if insufficiently ‘godly’, was not sacral monarchy, but was tantamount to minority or acephalous rule.
Not that any keep themselves here wholly free from defilement; but, as compared with hollow professors, the godly keep themselves unspotted from the world; and when they do contract it, they wash it away, so as to have their robes white in the blood of the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The deliverance of the godly is the work of God, that which he concerns himself in, both his wisdom to contrive the way and his power to work out the deliverance out of temptation, to prevent their falling into sin and their being ruined by their troubles. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
I cannot pass v. 15 without taking notice how often, and how emphatically, the word ungodly is repeated in it, no fewer than four times: ungodly men, ungodly sinners, ungodly deeds, and, as to the manner, ungodly committed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
One cannot but feel a thrill of sympathy for poor, dying Hurd on that hot September night, fairly hectored by pious, loud-voiced neighbors into eternity; and can well believe that many a colonial invalid who lived through mithridate and rubila, through sweating and blood-letting, died of the kindly and godly-intentioned praying of his neighbors. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
In this sense, the gift of grace which makes the ungodly just is greater than the gift of glory which beatifies the just. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
ungodly acts
If somebody wanted to sit down and have an espresso in a cafe, they shouldn't have to do it in the same place where people were doing such immoral and ungodly things as having a beer.
Some ungodly evil force stepped in, intent on bringing about his death.
I live in an historically apathetic precinct, so I was surprised to see so many people there at such an ungodly hour.
In the beginning of his work against heresies, he says, “Whereas some having rejected the truth, bringing in lying words, and ‘vain genealogies, rather than godly edifying, which is in faith,’ 1 Tim.i. 4, as saith the apostle.” The Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions.
Whereas godly joy may be our strength, godly sorrow serves for our sanctification.
She let out the clutch, turned the wheel, and discovered that the truck was ungodly heavy. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
It is incumbent on Christian families to ensure the godly, biblical education of their young people.
Godly bishops intervened and suppressed the Pelagian heresy in late fifth-century Britain.
If you're postmillennialist, you believe that Christ comes back after godly Christians have seized control of secular society for a thousand years. Chip Berlet: Palin's Religious Beliefs Must Be Explored
They stood before them, flexing their godly muscles.
Indeed, if God were to lift His Spirit from on-fire churches and godly believers, our nation would be a raging hell.
He waited there while the cathedral began to reverberate with a lovely, godly music. THE BROKEN GOD
So the apostle unveils Christ as Lord and unlocks the truth of Scripture, and lives a credible godly life in his ministry.
Why yes, it is ever-so-obvious by looking at that photograph of a gigantic, lily-white Wonderbread Southern family that nary a one of them has ever engaged in ungodly homosexual conduct or contemplated divorce. Think Progress » VIDEO: Inhofe ‘Very Proud’ There’s Never Been a Homosexual Relationship in the ‘Recorded History of Our Family’
It was a heart-healing meeting of many of the godly, which he holds weekly in the season; and we had such a warsle of the spirit among us that the like cannot be told. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
I waited in silence, browsing through my CDs, deciding which one to play, when my meditations were disturbed by an ungodly sound, and the emission of an unrepeatable word from Jo.
And so her mother left the church and began to let her hair grow again, but stopped wearing necklaces and earrings because jewelry, according to her new pastor at Miracle Spring, was ungodly, unbefitting of a woman of virtue. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
Many of the godly liked to portray themselves and their families kneeling in prayer on their tombs.
Through the warmer months you can hear the likes of every kind of caterwauling at ungodly times in the night. Archive 2009-10-01

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