Catherine Marshall famous 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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Doors #Evil #Encounters

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

#Hope #Doors #Valleys

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
-- Catherine Marshall

#Christian #Jesus #Needs

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

#Spiritual #Discipline #Needs

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

#Kindness #Giving #Littles

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

#Christian #Prayer #Purpose

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

#Prayer #Believe #Praying

The search for God begins at the point of need.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Needs

Lord, what are you trying to teach me?
-- Catherine Marshall

#Trying #Lord #Teach

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Pigs #Mind #Desire

I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?
-- Catherine Marshall

#Heart #Earth #Responsible

My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Father #Blessing #Use

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Would Be #Cases #Candor

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Christian #Stars #Why Not

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'.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Years #House #Today

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Beautiful #Men #Mountain

When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Jesus #Heart #Apology

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Father #Acceptance #Reality

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Cutting #Sides #Honest

Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Feel Better #Ideas #Perfect

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Adversity #Doors #Faces

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Ideas #Issues #Long

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Beautiful #Character #White

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Forgiveness #Acceptance

I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Prayer #Believe #Answers

in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Positive #Cynicism #Secrecy

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Bread #Hunger

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Adversity #Swim #Depth

I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Spiritual #Reality #Grieving

Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Happiness #Girl #Baby

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

#Christian #Father #Eternity

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

#Girl #Feminist #Danger

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Heaven #Fists #Faces

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

#Children #Poverty #Born

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

#Scandal #Poverty #Changed

When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Dream #Spiritual #Flower

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Loyalty #Jesus #Believe

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.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Success #Compassion #Understanding

... 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 ...
-- Catherine Marshall

#Heart #Mouths #Moments