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."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Opportunity, Freedom, May, Right)

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Deeds)

"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Work, Patience)

"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Trouble, Want)

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Life, Difficulties, Pressure)

"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: People, World)

"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."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Vision, May)

"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."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: God, Difficulty, Will)

"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: God, Resentment)

"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Cause, Succeed, Will)

"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Change, Right, Wrong)

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Belief, Force)