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.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not 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.
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?
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.
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.
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.