Quotes About Battle

Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.

My sentence is for open war.

The brazen throat of war.

Which if not victory is yet revenge.

We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day life is perfect, and we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory – and the anticipation of other miracles – sustains us in the battle indefinitely.

I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob. LIke most battle experiences, my own view was limited by my vantage point at the back of the stalls. There was an inescapable tension in the house. The theatre itself took on a feeling of rococo mockery and devilment, too hot, a snake-pit of stabbing jewellery, hair-pieces, hobbling high heels, stifling wraps and unmanageable long frocks.

Satan's purpose is to take from you what God has given you.

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

Satan would willingly lose every battle to us, so long as he could successfully steal the attention that belongs to God.

Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!

I've not yet begun to fight!

I have not yet begun to fight!

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

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

The problem is not a battle between contemporary worship music and hymns; the problem is that there aren't enough martyrs during the week. If no soldiers are perishing, what you want on Sunday is Bob Hope and some pretty girls, not the army chaplain and a surgeon.

This was Andrew Murray's judgment a hundred years ago: As we seek to find out why, with such millions of Christians, the real army of God that is fighting the hosts of darkness is so small, the only answer is—lack of heart. The enthusiasm of the kingdom is missing. And that is because there is so little enthusiasm for the King.18

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

Let us then take heart that the mark of a true follower of Jesus is not yet perfection but rather unrelenting battle against sin.

Dead upon the field of glory, Hero fit for song and story.

The Battle of Tours in 732 CE stopped the encroachment of Islam into Christian Europe and divided the world into religious spheres of influence. The Crusades represented a hostile invasion of Christian power into Islamic strongholds

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

The Titanides didn't seem to understand the glory of battle; it was something they did because they couldn't help it. Cirocco admired them for the first pitied them for the second.

They were no longer giving voice to their battle song, but the frenzy was still in their eyes. Steam puffed from their nostrils and the ones with bare skin glistened. They thundered by, then wheeled to face the angels.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.