Quotes from Peter Marshall

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

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

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

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

We came to see that the Great Awakening was actually a reawakening of a deep national desire for the Covenant Way of life. This yearning did not die with the passing of the Puritan era, but only went dormant. It was a desire which would produce a new generation of clergymen who would help to prepare America to fight for her life.

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.

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

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

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.

They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.

escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.

Food is merely a platform for condiments.

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

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

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

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

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

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.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.