Quotes from Peter Marshall

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

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

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

Wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.

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

And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary, was willing to die out to their selfish desires, the life which came out of that death was immeasurable, and continued to affect lives far into the future.

This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.

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.

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