Quotes About Victory

Frequently, I hear people say, "The reason we can't go in is the giants. We must first take them down." I think perhaps a major reason we are not going in to possess the land is that we are more interested in giants than we are desperate to taste the honey of our inheritance.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!

Whoever can surprise well must conquer

I've not yet begun to fight!

I have not yet begun to fight!

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith—the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ.

Don't leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than by faith to die with Christ to our old seductions, that is, to gain a distaste for them because of a superior satisfaction in God.

God's work in us does not eliminate our work; it enables it. We work because he is the one at work in us. Therefore, the fight for joy is possible because God is fighting for us and through us.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God." Desiring God, 12.

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 JOHN 3:8

The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.

There is no thought in the Bible that Satan had to be paid off to let sinners be saved. What happened to Satan when Christ died was not payment, but defeat.

The gospel at Christmas is: Christ has trampled this enemy underfoot at the cross. So for everyone who trusts in him, their sins are cast into the depths of the sea.

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.