Quote by Peter Marshall ““Wonder-Working Providences of Sion’s Saviour in New England,”” — Peter Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had always read… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that… — Willem Lange Copy Share Image
“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in his own… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The habit of doubt; of distrusting his own judgment and of totally rejecting the judgment of the world; the tendency to regard every question… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“In your journey through New England,' he wrote, 'Would you be willing to visit Northampton? You have the blessing of Heaven with you wherever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my… — Ethan Allen Copy Share
“My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness,… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“The idea of living there, of not having to go back ever again to asphalt and shopping malls and modular furniture; of living there with Charles and Camilla and Henry and Francis and maybe even Bunny; of no one marrying or going home or getting a job in a town a thousand miles away or doing any of the traitorous… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
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 in time of calamity . in days and nights of sorrow and trouble that the presence, the sufficiency, and the sympathy of God grow very sure and very wonderful. Then we find out that the… — Peter Marshall Copy Share
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to… — Peter Marshall Copy Share