Compromise Quotes - Page 28

• How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

  Price Pritchett

  Trust, Everyday, Littles

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• "The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

  Joseph Henry Shorthouse

  Doubt, Church, England

  Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Inglesant: A Romance ...”

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• If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Weakness, Constant

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945”, p.551, Random House

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• Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.

  Melody Beattie

  Couple, Fun, Team

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Sara Sheridan

  Understanding, Firsts, Looks

  "How my niece ended up signing copies of my book" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.

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• Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.120, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Levels, Determined

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.70, Tyndale House

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• Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

  Randy Alcorn

  Feel Good, Grace, Tolerance

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• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  Dennis Green

  Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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• Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

  John Owen

  Effort, Sin, Obedience

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• In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Home, Police

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.96, David C Cook

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• Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Rewards, Doe

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.748, Discovery House

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• Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

  David Brainerd

  Thinking, Sin, Guilty

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.277

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• Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Soul, Influence, Sin

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• Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne.

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, Taken, Idols

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• Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

  Stephen Covey

  Stress, Looks, Way

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• Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Two

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

  Peter Costello

  Government, House, Balance

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• In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

  Tim Allen

  Nurture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

  Agatha Christie

  Pay The Price, Want, Nine

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• All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Bigs, Humans, Has Beens

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• I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

  Cher

  Who I Am, Merit, My Own

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• I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Integrity, Character, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

  Michael Dell

  Dream, Moving, Winning

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