Quotes about Victory
Christians in Germany will face the terrible alternative of either willing the defeat of their nation in order that Christian civilization may survive, or willing the victory of their nation and thereby destroying our civilization.
— Scot McKnight
The language describes the royal entourage who will ascend to welcome the King of Glory in the air (air does not mean heaven), in order to usher him back to earth in royal celebration. In other words, the language signals a common image: when the watchmen of a walled city heard the trumpet sound, signaling the proximity of their royal king, they would send out an entourage and create a royal procession as the victorious king returned.
— Scot McKnight
The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.
— David Jeremiah
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
— Mark Twain
He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.
— Mark Twain
Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.
— Mark Twain
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no gain without struggle.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.