Explore Quotes by Catherine Marshall

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The search for God begins at the point of need.

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.

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.