Top 25 Peter Marshall Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Peter Marshall

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2. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

— Peter Marshall

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3. “A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

— Peter Marshall

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4. “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

5. “In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live – time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.”

— Peter Marshall

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

— Peter Marshall

7. “Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.”

— Peter Marshall

8. “Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.”

— Peter Marshall

9. “The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.”

— Peter Marshall

10. “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.”

— Peter Marshall

11. “It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.”

— Peter Marshall

12. “Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”

— Peter Marshall

13. “Let us not fool ourselves – without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.”

— Peter Marshall

14. “God hasn’t given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?”

— Peter Marshall

15. “The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.”

— Peter Marshall

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16. “The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.”

— Peter Marshall

17. “Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason – on fire.”

— Peter Marshall

18. “If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can’t take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.”

— Peter Marshall

19. “Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.”

— Peter Marshall

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

— Peter Marshall

21. “Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.”

— Peter Marshall

22. “The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.”

— Peter Marshall

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

— Peter Marshall

24. “Fear of the people is the sickness of all those who belong to authority; the people, for those in power, are the enemy.’33.”

— Peter Marshall

25. “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.”

— Peter Marshall

26. “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.”

— Peter Marshall

27. “Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. MAX STIRNER.”

— Peter Marshall

28. “When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.”

— Peter Marshall

29. “Just as man seeks justice in equality, society seeks order in anarchy.’3.”

— Peter Marshall