Standeth Quotes
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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More Standeth Quotes
The author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom.
Book of Common Prayer— Morning Prayer, Second Collect, for Peace.
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
— I Corinthians. X. 12.
If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
epictetus— Fragment xxiv.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
— Isaiah 59:14
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
— I Corinthians. X. 12. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Annie of Tharaw; translation from the German of Simon Dach, line 11.
If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
— Fragment xxiv. (Fragments)
And though longing and pity are two sundry properties, as to my sight, in this standeth the point of the Spiritual Thirst: which is desire in Him as long as we be in need , drawing us up to His bliss. And all this was seen in the Shewing of Compassion: for that shall cease on Doomsday.
— Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 31
Behind the dim unknown, standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
james russell lowell— The Present Crisis, Stanza 8.
