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Quotes About Victory

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
~ Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.
~ Horatius Bonar
Even in death may you triumphant
~ Darren Shan
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
~ Unknown
Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.
~ Alistair Begg
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Death, thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.
~ Mark Hart
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
~ Ann Aguirre
followed me to the sideboard like Willie Pep chasing some little pisher around the ring.
~ Philip Roth
27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[149] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." 29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
~ Philip Yancey
Our faith rests not just on Jesus' example but on his resurrection.
~ Philip Yancey
The resurrection and its victory over death brought a decisive new word to the vocabulary of pain and suffering: temporary. Jesus Christ holds out the startling promise of an afterlife without pain. Whatever anguish we feel now will not last.
~ Philip Yancey
La resistencia no es solo la capacidad para soportar algo difícil, sino también la capacidad para convertirlo en algo glorioso».
~ Philip Yancey
some of the most inspiring stories of faith come from those often considered "losers" by the rest of the world.
~ Philip Yancey
25He jammed[27] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.
~ Philip Yancey
I have learned the power of surviving.
~ Philippa Gregory
Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.
~ Philippa Gregory
He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.
~ Philippa Gregory
You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.
~ Philippa Gregory
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
~ Philippa Gregory
This is God's victory: not mine.
~ Philippa Gregory