“To endure patiently such trials would be a grand thing. To conquer them by heroic and cheerful encounter would be grander still. The world’s greatest heroes are its conquerors. To proclaim a man conqueror is to award him the highest earthly honors. But the honors which the apostle awards the Christian are still higher. The blessedness which he claims for him is still greater; for he proclaims him not only a conqueror, but more than a conqueror. In this warfare with tribulation, distress, persecution, &c. we overconquer — for such is the literal rendering of the passage.” — T.D. Witherspoon, More Than Conquerors (1881)