Quotes from Peter Marshall

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

We came to see that the Great Awakening was actually a reawakening of a deep national desire for the Covenant Way of life. This yearning did not die with the passing of the Puritan era, but only went dormant. It was a desire which would produce a new generation of clergymen who would help to prepare America to fight for her life.

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.

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7

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.

They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.

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.