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

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Believe, Praying

  Catherine Marshall (1961). “Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith”

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• 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

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• 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

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• Lord, what are you trying to teach me?

  Catherine Marshall

  Trying, Lord, Teach

  Catherine Marshall, Terri A. Gibbs (2001). “Warm Wisdom from Catherine Marshall”, J Countryman Books

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• 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

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• The search for God begins at the point of need.

  Catherine Marshall

  Needs

  Catherine Marshall (1961). “Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith”

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• 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

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• in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

  Catherine Marshall

  Positive, Cynicism, Secrecy

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

  Catherine Marshall

  Scandal, Poverty, Changed

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• I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

  Catherine Marshall

  Forgiveness, Acceptance

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• 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

  Catherine Marshall (1961). “Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith”

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

  Catherine Marshall

  Girl, Feminist, Danger

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Catherine Marshall

  Children, Poverty, Born

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• 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

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

  Catherine Marshall

  Bread, Hunger

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• Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.

  Catherine Marshall

  Christian, Disappointment, Father

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

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• 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

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