Quotes from Peter Marshall

Wonder-Working Providences of Sion's Saviour in New England

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under 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.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

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.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

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 your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.