Peter Marshall Quotes

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

God does not play dice.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

God always takes the simplest way.