Words matter. These are the best Peter Marshall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
This is a day of little faith – of few convictions – a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, ‘You can’t change human nature.’ It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ’s footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.
Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
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.
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.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
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.
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
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.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
