godliness

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Victorians linked cleanliness to ideas of morality and respectability - the idea that it was next to Godliness was deeply ingrained.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2013

Dante's Divine Comedy was a religious allegory about man's journey towards Godliness and salvation, yet he was branded a heretic because he questioned the pope's pursuit of secular power.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2010

Unlike most plumbings of such channels, Cleanliness and Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amicus Veritatis, who inquires respecting Cleanliness is next to Godliness, is referred to our 4th Vol., p. 491., for its probable origin.

From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Godliness, well-directed reverence, is the parent of all noble living, and the one infallible way to produce a noble life is faith in Christ, and love which flows from the faith.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander