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Saturday, February 2. 2013

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"We fight from victory not towards it. Therefore, we are never staring defeat in the face; the enemy is, when he looks at us!"


Graham Cook

Posted by Gwynnie in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 13:21 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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its suitably ponderous, but what is that supposed to mean?
#1 wirraway on 2013-02-02 14:05 (Reply)
I think he's trying to say think positive. Stay On the Sunny Side. Glass is half-full. etc. etc.
#1.1 BillH on 2013-02-03 10:39 (Reply)
Graham Cook is a minister. His idea is that the end is not in doubt because Jesus already secured it. We walk out this life (lived for the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven) in light of that... now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwyVDut8uA8
#1.2 Adam on 2013-04-03 10:01 (Reply)
Graham Cooke is a minister. He means we are called to walk here in the victory Jesus won (on earth as it is in heaven).

He has written and spoken a great deal, so it is pretty easy to find some posting on the web where he explains this... if it strikes you as interesting.
#1.3 dasein (Link) on 2013-04-03 10:14 (Reply)
It seems related to GK Chesterton's observation that “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
#2 Pajak on 2013-02-02 17:35 (Reply)
could be... GKC seems to be saying something else.... I hate to parse such good intentions, but the author isn't making much sense. I see he's a motivational speaker, so that explains much.
#2.1 wirraway on 2013-02-02 21:31 (Reply)
Many have noted that the English have won many a fight they shouldn't've, simply because to lose was out of the question.

Sun Tzu speaks of a war as having already begun before anyone believes it is coming, and the winner (tho not the precise outcome) having been determined by circumstance, before even that.

Churchill said something related:

QUOTE:
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.



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He also said something the more heart-breaking the more mused upon:

QUOTE:
Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.



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and, can't resist one more (have to paraphrase):

''The farther behind you look, the farther ahead you see''
#3 buddy larsen on 2013-02-03 13:25 (Reply)
Chesterton and Churchill would have made good drinking buddies, each tossing out their wisdoms in little one- and two-sentence pearls...
To Churchill's "If you will not fight for right ... it is better to perish than to live as slaves," GKC might have rejoindered “War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”
#3.1 Pajak on 2013-02-04 08:13 (Reply)
Perfect --perfect.
#3.1.1 buddy larsen on 2013-02-04 16:08 (Reply)
Tho he wouldn't be much welcome at their conversation (except that Stalin would've likely killed all three but with only the one he succeeded), Leon Trotsky agreed with:

You may not be interested in war, but war may be interested in you.

...and that's likely a translation. Define 'interst' broadly and it makes even better cents.
#3.1.2 buddy larsen on 2013-02-04 16:21 (Reply)

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