The Best Peter Marshall quotes

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

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

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving. — Peter Marshall

Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold; binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism. — Thurgood Marshall

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. — Thurgood Marshall

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

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer. — Peter Marshall

What is the quality of your intent? — Thurgood Marshall

Wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun. — Peter Marshall

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety–nine who have only interests. — Peter Marshall

This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles. — Thurgood Marshall

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. — Peter Marshall

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason–on fire. — Peter Marshall

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. — Peter Marshall

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

It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home. — Thurgood Marshall

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. — Thurgood Marshall

Peter Drucker, who said, ‘Our mission in life should be to make a positive difference, not to prove how smart or right we are. — Marshall Goldsmith

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. — Peter Marshall

Sometimes this going out in obedience to God’s command is more dramatic than at other times… sometimes more spectacular… sometimes more brave… but always it is a venture into the unknown. — Peter Marshall

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. — Peter Marshall

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. — Thurgood Marshall

Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. — Thurgood Marshall

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it. — Peter Marshall

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. — Thurgood Marshall

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. — Peter Marshall

As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe–shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it’s Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality. — Thurgood Marshall

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

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. — Peter Marshall

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower. — Thurgood Marshall

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. — Peter Marshall

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man’s house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission. — Thurgood Marshall

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. — Thurgood Marshall

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. — Peter Marshall

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. — Peter Marshall

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

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds. — Thurgood Marshall

A holiday would be a poor thing indeed without a great deal of game playing! — Catherine Marshall

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. — Peter Marshall