Retreat Quotes

“Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.”

“I have often thought, during these conferences, about the comment that Maurice Maignan, one of the first companions of Ozanam, made after a retreat: "One thought strikes me. All the means of sanctification which the preacher proposes and develops require a strong soul...I will not profit from exercises designed for strong souls. O my God, show me the exercises designed for feeble souls. Would the saints have forgotten or disdained them? Yet even if the saints did not think of these poor souls, who are nevertheless most numerous, You, Lord, my mercy, have not abandoned them. You Yourself, Good Master, have burdened Yourself with them. I know that better than anyone. I am one of those souls, and I bless You for having revealed to the weak and the little ones what You do not always accord to the valiant and the strong.”

“Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

“Certain battles were won by retreating.”

“Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.”

“A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.”

“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”

“There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.”