By the way, please cut out the deliberate obtusity!!!!!  I'm well aware that standards don't equate holiness, and I'm also aware that most of the time "standards" refers to rules of dress or other outward appearance guidelines.
Thanks for your cooperation.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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