Quotes about Compromise

Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

When believers allow sin and compromise to be in their lives, it drains away the power in the work of the Cross and the power of the Spirit that is resident in a believer's life.

The moral climate is dramatically shifting, as Scripture prophesied it would at the conclusion of the age. But we who refuse to make room for compromise in our faith must hold our position with confidence, understanding that we have been ordained by God to live in this hour. We were chosen for this moment to demonstrate victorious living in Jesus Christ — by His all-sufficient grace — in a world that has run amuck.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.

The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.