Weekly Dose Of Lloyd-Jones (On Godliness)

I wonder why it is that the whole idea of the godly man has somehow or other got lost amongst us? Why is it that Christian people are not described as ‘god-fearing’ people?

...The Church has been trying to preach morality and ethics without the gospel as a basis; it has been preaching morality without godliness; and it simply does not work. It never has done, and it never will. And the result is that the Church, having abandoned her real task, has left humanity more or less to its own devices.*

*Sargent, T. (2007). Gems from Martyn Lloyd-Jones: An Anthology of Quotations from 'the Doctor' (128). Milton Keynes, England; Colorado Springs, CO; Hyderabad, AP: Paternoster.