Godliness

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

"Frank, in pantheism, everything has some level of the aspect of God." "Don, even this pillow here?" "Yeah, even that pillow may have a scant level of godliness. It's pantheism. In pantheism, this whole universe is God." "What about panentheism?" "In panentheism, God is this whole universe and beyond it." "You're like a philosophical owl, Don!

Some religious people wonder if God or gods come down in human form. Hinduism's avatars and Christianity's Christ are precedents. In the concept of pantheism, everything and everybody have some aspect of godliness, at some level, even though sometimes scarcely.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

Nay, but he prated, And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms Against your honour That, with the little godliness I have, I did full hard forbear him.

But godlinesse with contentment is great gaine.