Daily Inspiration Quote by Peter Marshall

A prayer like this doesn’t ask God to hand down victory; it asks God to sand down the ego. Peter Marshall, a clergyman who became famous for bringing a pastor’s cadence into American public life, builds a two-part petition that quietly rewires what “being right” is for. Most religious language flatters the believer: we’re the faithful, they’re the lost. Marshall’s line rejects that comfort. It assumes error is common and correction is hard, so the first request isn’t “make us right,” but “make us willing to change.” The moral problem isn’t ignorance; it’s attachment.

Then he turns the knife: even correctness can become a sin if it makes you unbearable. “Where we are right” sounds like a win condition, but Marshall treats it as a new temptation. The subtext is domestic and civic at once: marriages rupture, committees stall, congregations split not because people lack principles, but because they weaponize them. “Easy to live with” is deliberately plainspoken, almost comic in its understatement. It drags lofty righteousness back into the space where it actually gets tested: the kitchen table, the workplace, the pew.

The rhetorical brilliance is balance. Marshall refuses relativism (there is such a thing as wrong and right) while refusing sanctimony (rightness doesn’t confer permission to dominate). In the mid-century American context that prized certainty and authority, this is a countercultural piety: a spirituality measured less by correct doctrine than by teachability and temperament. It’s humility with teeth.