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