Quotes about Victory
Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.
— Thomas a Kempis
These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
— Thomas Paine
A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!
— Thomas Watson
No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.
— Thomas Watson
A godly man will forgive those who have wronged him Revenge is sweet to nature. A gracious spirit passes by affronts, forgets injuries and counts it a greater victory to conquer an enemy by patience than by power. It is truly heroic "to overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). Though I would not trust an enemy—yet I would endeavor to love him. I would exclude him from my creed—but not from my prayer (Matt. 5:44).
— Thomas Watson
As David's three worthies ventured their lives, and brake through the host of the Philistines for water, 2 Sam. xxiii. 46, — Such a kind of violence must we use, breaking through all dangers for obtaining the 'water of life.
— Thomas Watson
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20
— Thomas Watson
God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.
— Thomas Watson
Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.
— Thomas Watson
Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.
— Thomas Watson
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
— Josh McDowell
when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading "occupied.
— Norman Vincent Peale