Stand Firm Quotes

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

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• When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strong, Blow, Storm

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• There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Easter, Storm

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• Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

  Francine Rivers

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.11, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sacrifice, Answers, Principles

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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• Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

  Ulisses Soares

  Obeying God, Moral, Stand Alone

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• Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strong, Grief, Fall

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• We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Teaching, Views

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• While the world changes, the cross stands firm.

  Bruno of Cologne

  World, Crosses, Firm

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• Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Water, Cliffs

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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• The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Matter, Firm, Things That Matter

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• Sometimes being different is not going to be the most popular thing. But you have to be confident in you and what you know is right and stand firm. You may lose friends over it. Families may even split up because of it. But that's the price to pay. That's the cross to bear when you really live your life for Christ.

  DeLisha Milton-Jones

  Live Your Life, Being Different, Splits

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

  Archimedes

  Graduation, Determination, Moving

  Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge

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• Right where you are is where you need to be. Don't fight it! Don't run away from it! Stand firm! Take a deep breath. And another. And another. Now, ask yourself: Why is this in my world? What do I need to see?

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Running, Fighting, Needs

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 01, 2016

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• Stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Firm, Imaginary Things

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Stand firm, don't flutter!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Firm

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• When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

  Marie Leszczynska

  Jesus, Religion, Woods

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• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hope, Country, Wrecks

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Weather, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Wind, Tree, Heaven

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

  Tertullian

  Prayer, Fall, Home

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• Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Anvils, Firmness, Beaten

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• It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

  Thomas S. Monson

  May, Minorities, Belief

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• The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Men, Order

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