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Peter Marshall
Scottish
Clergyman
About the author
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Deeds
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,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Right
#Freedom
#May
#Opportunity
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Work
#Patience
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Want
#Trouble
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Life
#Pressure
#Difficulties
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#People
#World
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#May
#Vision
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,
Scottish
Clergyman
#God
#Will
#Difficulty
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#God
#Resentment
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Will
#Cause
#Succeed
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Right
#Wrong
#Change
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Belief
#Force
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall,
Scottish
Clergyman
#Life
#Measure