If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Pastor, 1906 – 1945)
Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling…If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason – on fire.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
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 (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. May we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: “Because I live, ye shall live also.” Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death, that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world’s problems and threats, since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name, we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
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 (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall (Preacher, 1902 – 1949)