Quotes about Victory

When it was all over, Pitt had overwhelmingly won the House of Commons, and as politically weak as he was before the election, he was now strong. It was an historic and glorious reversal, and little Wilberforce was at the very center of it all.

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."

Behold, the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, what it accomplishes while we are silent, suffer, and pray. Is not the word of Moses true: "You will be silent and the Lord will fight for you"?

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

if it be a work of grace, it cannot fail.

Wilberforce wrote some years later that it was as if he'd been all those years in a dream from which at last now he had been awakened.

All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Perhaps all life was like that--dull and then a heroic flurry at the end.

When believers allow sin and compromise to be in their lives, it drains away the power in the work of the Cross and the power of the Spirit that is resident in a believer's life.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!