godly man—a deeply religious person:
- They were the godly men; and it was the business of the ruling classes to endow them with benefices.
man of God—
1. an ordained priest; a clergyman of the Christian Church:
- I don’t expect to hear that kind of language from a man of God.
2. a holy man; a saint:
- It was on the tried friendship of that true man of God that Harold chose to lean.