“Being Christian across the board means that there has to be a willingness to die, a willingness to lose. That classical Christian school you started? Better to have it fold than to go woke, for example. Reluctance to die is the foothold that every form of worldliness has in us. Shrinking from death is the way that dominion is undone. It is the way that dominion becomes a grasping for something else. Shrinking from death is how we evade the fruitfulness that God promises us. The key to dominion and fruitfulness is to be found here. You don’t always have to die, but you always have to be willing to. Look around. Why is the landscape littered with so many institutions that used to be Christian and now are solidly in the enemy’s camp? The reason is that there was always a fatal board meeting somewhere when they decided that unfaithful survival was better than faithful martyrdom.” — Douglas Wilson, Power, Escape, Dominion
Faithful martyrdom is better than unfaithful survival.
It is better to fail at an attempt at righteousness than to be successful in a compromise with unrighteousness.
Revelation 12:11
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
It is better to fall short of the glory of God than to get a grasp on anything else.
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” — G.K. Chesterton
It is better to lose a good fight than to win a bad endorsement.
"The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it." — G.K. Chesterton
It is better to fall short of God's glory by aiming at it than it is to hit a different target.
It would be better to die a saint than to live as an apostate.
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