How To Live a Victorious & Overcoming Life God's Way

How To Live a Victorious & Overcoming Life God's Way
Bible Passages On Depending on God To Live a Victorious, Overcoming Life

Unless stated, all verses are NIV


Deuteronomy 1:21
 See, the LORD your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

Deuteronomy 20:4
For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."

Psalm 44:6-8
I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.

Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.

Matthew 11:28
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Mark 14:38
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

Luke 10:19
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Luke 22:40
On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."

Luke 22:46
"Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation."

John 16:33
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:35.37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ....No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Romans 12:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11
If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

2 Corinthians 2:14(NKJV)
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ.

Galatians 5:16-17
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Ephesians 4:22-24
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:26-27
"In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.

Ephesians 6:10-17
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

1 Timothy 6:9
People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

2 Timothy 4:18
The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 2:18
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

Hebrews 12:3
Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

James 1:12-15
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

James 4:7-8
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

1 Peter 5:8-10
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

1 John 2:12-15
I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

1 John 3:8
He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.

1 John 4:4
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 5:3-5
This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

This was taken from: http://encouragingbiblequotes.com/versesovercomersa.html

Here's a Great list of the Top 50 Famous Quotes on Love!

Top 50 Famous Love Quotes

Quotes about love have been immortalized in poetry, in songs, in novels, speeches and movies. Because there are so many quotes about love out there, we have gathered the top 50 for you to peruse and select the best ones with which to express your love! 

1. “There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.” – George Sands

2. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

3. “When you are in love you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” –Dr. Seuss

4. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

5. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte

6. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

7. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

8. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

9. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

10. “Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that.” – Michael Leunig

11. “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.”  – Jonathan Carroll

12. “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham

13. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

15. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

16. “Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

17. “Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Mark Twain

18. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard

19. “But to see her was to love her, love but her, and lover her forever.” – Robert Burns

20. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

21. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

22. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland

23. “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”  – Heather Cortez

24. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” –Robert A. Heinlein

25. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – Janos Arnay

26. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire: in the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” – Bruce Lee

27. “Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” – Oscar Hammerstein II

28. “Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

29. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

30. “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” – Benjamin Franklin

31. “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.” –Barbara Johnson

32. “There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

33. “True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal

34. “Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones, as a wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

35. A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.” – Frank A. Clark

36. “Where there is love there is life.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi

37. “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” – Sylvester Stallone

38. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.” – Victor Hugo

39. “Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” – Rose Franken

40. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare

41. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin

42. “Where we love is home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

43. “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong

44. “Once a man has won a woman’s love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.” –Robert Brault

45. “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much love a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

46. “Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.” – George Herbert

47. “Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.” – Rita Rudner

48. “The love game is never called off on account of darkness.” – Tom Masson

49. “Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce

50. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare

Great List of Inspiring Leadership Quotes!

Leadership Quotes

by MARK.SHEAD

This collection of leadership quotes is a great source of inspiration.  If there is a great leadership quote we missed, please add it in the comments below.

Leadership quotations can be a powerful part of your personal leadership development plan. Taking a few quotes from people you admire and spending some time, deeply thinking about the quotes, can help you better understand the mindset behind the leader.  Over the course of a year, you can cover a number of leadership quotes and develop a much better understanding of the person behind the quote and how their perspective applies to your leadership style.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

~Margaret Drabble

This leadership quote speaks to the possibilities that exist when you and your team don’t have a bunch of preconceived ideas.  Everyone is limited by what they are sure is possible.  Without those barriers, the glass ceiling goes away.

In matters of style, swim with the current;

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

~T. Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson’s leadership quote is a strong reminder about when to be flexible and when to stand strong. To often people are rigid on their style and flexible on their principles–the exact opposite of what he recommends.

And when we think we lead, we are most led.

~Lord Byron

Leadership is a give an take process as this leadership quote points out.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

~Antony Jay

If you want to lead you have to practice leading as this leadership quote points out.  Classroom experience isn’t nearly as valuable as actually leading people and learning from your mistakes.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

~Henry Kissinger

Kissinger knew that it was no great feat to get people to do something they had done before.  Real leadership skill is getting them to do something they haven’t ever done or aren’t even sure is possible.

People are more easily led than driven.

~David Harold Fink

This leadership quote is an excellent reminder that leading is different than forcing people to do what you say.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

~Marian Anderson

This leadership quote reminds us to see things from the perspective of the people whose lives we impact–a very important lesson for leaders in any position.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

~Eric Hoffer

This leadership quote is an excellent way of explaining the proper balance for a leader between being realistic and being inspiring.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

This quote by Emerson reminds us to push into new areas and take people where no one has yet been.

The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.

~Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

The colonel’s leadership quote shows that leadership needs to be focused on what it accomplishes instead of just being leadership for leadership’s sake.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

~Abraham Lincoln

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

~Proverbs 29:18

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.

~Ross Perot

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

~Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

~Sandra Carey

Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

~Lester R. Bittel

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

~Warren Bennis

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call.

~Warren Bennis

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

~Max DePree

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

~Theodore Roosevelt

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.

~Henry Miller

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

~John Kenneth Galbraith

The best example of leadership is leadership by example.

~Jerry McClain

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

~Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

~Ray Kroc

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

~Harry Truman

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

~John Quincy Adams

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.

~Walter Lippman

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

~Albert Schweitzer

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~Harold R. McAlindon

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

~Stephen R. Covey

This is a nice explanation of the contrast between management and leadership.  For more perspective on management see our list of management quotes.

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

~David R. Gergen

Leadership is action, not position.

~Donald H. McGannon

He that cannot obey cannot command.

~Benjamin Franklin

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

~Albert Einstein

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

~Harold S. Geneen

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

~John Maxwell

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

~John Quincy Adams

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

~Warren Bennis

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

~Theodore Hesburgh

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

~Rosalynn Carter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

~Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Good leaders must first become good servants.

~Robert Greenleaf

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

~Rachel Maddow

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

~Mohandas K. Gandhi

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

~Kenneth Blanchard

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

~John Gardner

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

~Edwin H. Friedman

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

~Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is a dealer in hope.

~Napoleon Bonaparte

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

~Peter F. Drucker

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

~John F. Kennedy

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

~Steve Jobs

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