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

Godliness is profitable; but its profit it appears, consists in finding that all is loss: yet in this way you teach your son.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William

"It was indeed," said Oisille, "great daring and extreme hypocrisy to throw the cloak of Godliness and true Christianity over so enormous a sin."

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George