Scottish - Clergyman | May 27, 1902 - January 26, 1949
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall
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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.
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Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
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If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
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It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
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I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
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Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
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A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.
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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 one's mind.
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I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.
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The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
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