Peter Marshall Quotes

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Men say that I am a saint losing myself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint.

Better to be always in a minority of one with God — branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel — frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace — or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies moldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," — in defense of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a God, and not of a man!".

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs... He asks us to let our lights shine.

My faith is central to who I am as a human being, not just as an actor - so it informs every decision I make, whether it's deciding on a project or deciding on how to treat the guy who cuts me off in traffic.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.