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

The poet meets us on the common ground of a disinterested humanity, and he teaches us to hold an earnest faith in the worth and the intrinsic Godliness of the soul.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Frederickson, Charles W.

He wrote Psyche, or Love's Mystery, a poem once very popular, and an attack on Henry More's Mystery of Godliness, for which he received the thanks of the university.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various