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To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
- Leonard Ravenhill
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
- Alistair Begg
Peacemaking is also not appeasement. Always giving in, acting like a doormat, and allowing others to always run over you is not what Jesus had in mind. He refused to back down on many issues, standing his ground in the face of evil opposition.
- Rick Warren
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
- Elbert Hubbard
A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.
- Mike Huckabee
Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.
- Kent Hughes
I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.
- RC Sproul Jr.
the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.
- James Carroll
We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it. Yet, though I speak as genius, I cannot speak for genius. I cannot give nature a voice in my script. I can not give others a voice in my script-without denying their own source, their originality. To do so is to cease responding to the other, to cease being responsible. No one and nothing belong in my script.
- James Carse
A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- Publilius Syrus
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer