Catherine Marshall Quotes

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.

No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Lord, what are you trying to teach me?

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

It's today I must be living.