No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
We are sure to be losers when we argue with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.
If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
