Quotes about Standing

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

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.

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.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

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.

the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.

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.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

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.