Quotes by Peter Marshall

“Give 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”

“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.”

“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration...The time is come- it is now- when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. Americas future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating Gods government.”

“One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot, the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.”

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

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

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

“Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?Paul Lynde: A passenger.”

“Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.”

“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”

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.

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

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

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

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

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.

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 cant change human nature. It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

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

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