Quotes About Standing For The Truth

#1. 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.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#2. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Stand up for what is right against the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#4. It was all as it had been,
except for the weight of the present,
that scuttled the pact we made with heaven.
In truth there was no cause for rejoicing,
nor need to turn around, either.
We were lost just by standing,
listening to the hum of wires overhead.

John Ashbery

#5. It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

Dianna Hardy

#6. Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

Rob Bell

#7. The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

Jan Karon

#8. You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#9. I wish I could say I didn't owe anything to anyone. But the truth is, I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for the courage and support of each and every one of you. I hope I can be as good a leader as we've had in the past and as good as you deserve.

Jack O'Neill

#10. He knew she had been telling the truth when she told him she seldom asked for help. It was clear in her every interaction with him - in her speech , even in the way she held herself- that she was used to standing alone.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#11. Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Richard Rohr

#12. This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Paul Tillich

#13. Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

Bennie Thompson

#14. Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Criss Jami

#15. "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Luther Standing Bear

#16. The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.

Suzy Kassem

#17. In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Charles Baxter

#18. The truth is, you can only give a person so much time to realize what's standing right in front of them. You can only let a person chase you for so long before you realize that maybe, just maybe, they never intended to catch you at all.

Mandy Hale

#19. Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.

Suzy Kassem

#20. Stand up for what is just against the unjust.

Suzy Kassem

#21. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#22. Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Luther Standing Bear

#23. It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.

Denny Taylor

#24. If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

Jeff Cooper

#25. This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

James Freeman Clarke

#26. I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.

Sophie Calle

#27. When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Unk, standing at a porthole, wept quietly. He was weeping for love, for family, for friendship, for truth, for civilization. The things he wept for were all abstractions, since his memory could furnish few faces or artifacts with which his imagination might fashion a passion play.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Anna Freeman

#30. Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Cornel West