Peter Marshall Quotes

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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…
• When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
• May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
• 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.
• Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
• It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
• A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
• Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
• Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we…
• The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
• One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
• God does not leave us comfortless, but we have to be in dire need of comfort to know the truth of His promise. It is…
• I thank God for Christmas. Would that it lasted all year. For on Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day, all the world is a better place,…

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