97 quotes found
“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.”
“Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.”
“If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.”
“No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.”
“He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.”
“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
“Sometimes in life, you do things you dont want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. Its all about deciding whats worth losing and wha...”
“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in...”
“I recall Decimus instructing me while at work that wrong friends will make my heart yearn for sin more than it usually does. Compromises will be easier and wisdom will be replaced with folly. I jus...”
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
“How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.”
“If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights”
“It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.”
“Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when h...”
“Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you were with your loved one, but in hell, eventually you would cry to have you and your loved one toget...”
“When you compromise the word of God without remorse, it is an indication that you were never deeply rooted in Jesus Christ. Peter was remorseful. Luke 22:54-62.”
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, wit...”
“Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.”
“Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.”
“Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.”
