For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
- Job 29:11
For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
- Romans 14:18
But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.