Peter Marshall

“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.”

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

“The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.”

“Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.”

“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

“Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”

“Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.”

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

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

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

“A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

“I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.”