Quotes about Defeat

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

We can defeat Satan much more quickly by praising God than by worrying.

If we stare at our problems too much, think and talk about them too much, they are likely to defeat us. Glance at your problems but stare at Jesus.

The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God's presence in Jesus' solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.

Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner's prize is the defeated opponent.

The great do not always prevail.

Has helped bring it home to me how fragile life is - and how necessary it is to concentrate on the essentials. No matter what happens to you, if you can draw strength from God and the people you love, nothing can ever defeat you.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.