Light and the Glory, The Quotes

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18 KJV).”
― Peter J. Marshall, The Light and the Glory: 1492-1793

“Preaching after the battles of Lexington and Concord, William Stearns had said: We trust that all whose circumstance will admit of it will go. that none such will refuse to enlist in defense of his country. When God, in His providence, calls to take the sword, if any refuse to obey, Heaven’s dread artillery is leveled against them, as you may see ... Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood! (Jeremiah 48:10). Cursed is the sneaking coward who neglects the sinking state, when called to its defense—O then flee this dire curse—let America’s valorous sons put on the harness, nor take it off till peace shall be to Israel.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: “that God governs in the affairs of man.” And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary, was willing to die out to their selfish desires, the life which came out of that death was immeasurable, and continued to affect lives far into the future.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. . . . I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth. Isaiah 49:1, 6”
― Peter J. Marshall, The Light and the Glory: 1492-1793

“general dissolution of principles and manners [meaning mores, not table manners] will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. . . . [Yet] if virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.”
― Peter J. Marshall, The Light and the Glory: 1492-1793

“Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“We came to see that the Great Awakening was actually a reawakening of a deep national desire for the Covenant Way of life. This yearning did not die with the passing of the Puritan era, but only went dormant. It was a desire which would produce a new generation of clergymen who would help to prepare America to fight for her life.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“Wonder-Working Providences of Sion’s Saviour in New England,”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory