Quotes About Victory

thanks to God's will – Alfred was victorious.

plucky little Britannia throwing off Roman rule and beating the barbarians into the bargain

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.

At length from us may find, who overcomes 649: By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

Hee in Celestial Panoplie all armd   Of radiant URIM, work divinely wrought,   Ascended, at his right hand Victorie   Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside him hung his Bow   And Quiver with three-bolted Thunder stor'd,   And from about him fierce Effusion rowld   Of smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire;

Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge

Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded; and Heav'n Gates Pourd out by millions her victorious Bands Pursuing. I upon my Frontieres here Keep

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

But whatever dismal appearance of things there may be in the world, we need not fear the ruin of the church by the most bloody oppositions. Former experiences will give security against future events. It is built on the rock, and those gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things:— [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace. [1.]

There is not a day in our lives in which sin does not either defeat us or is defeated, prevails over us or is prevailed over, and it will be like this as long as we live in this world.

The Mortification Of Sin In Particular Described

Christians are called to wage war against this enemy, knowing that there are only two options: "Be killing sin or it will be killing you."25

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live" (chapter 7). Oh, the pastoral insights that emerge from Owen! As here: If you are fighting sin, you are alive. Take heart.

God says, 'Here is one, if he could be rid of this lust I should never hear of him more; let him wrestle with this, or he is lost'" (chapter 8). Astonishing! God ordains to leave a lust with me till I become the sort of warrior who will still seek his aid when this victory is won. God knows when we can bear the triumphs of his grace.

Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things: [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace.

over the items and he tied

Yorkische Marsch.

floor, his chest