Peter Marshall
Clergyman
1902-05-27
Quotes by Peter Marshall
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May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
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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.
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
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If you hug to yourself any resentment against somebody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
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