Peter Marshall Quotes

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.

Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)

When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.

Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Wonder-Working Providences of Sion's Saviour in New England,

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Food is merely a platform for condiments.

When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.