“I soon saw, however, that Creed's obsession with death was typical of most of the children. This came out in their play. "Let's play funeral" was a favorite game at recess. To me, it seemed bizarre and mawkish play. All… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share
“I soon saw, however, that Creed's obsession with death was typical of most of the children. This came out in their play. "Let's play funeral" was a favorite game at recess. To me, it seemed bizarre and mawkish play. All that saved it was the spontaneous creativity of the children and the fact that, unerringly, they caught the incongruities and… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share
“Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share
I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'. — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
“Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where WE stand, how we're going to live OUR lives. We can try to persuade ourselves that evil doesn't exist; live for ourselves and wink at evil. We can… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
“Have you ever watched a baby learning to walk? He totters, arms stretched out to balance himself. He wobbles - and falls, perhaps bumps his nose. Then he puts the palms of his little hands flat on the floor, hikes his rear end up, looks around to see if anybody is watching him. If nobody is, usually he doesn't bother… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share
