Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

Tugas yang harus kita hadapi seringkali bukan pilihan kita, Tetapi kita bisa memilih bagaimana melaksanakannya. Kalau kita melakukannya dengan sungguh-sungguh, hasilnya akan memberi kepuasan pada hidup kita sehari-hari.

Prayerize, visualize, actualize—that is the formula for successful imaging.

what you can image you can be.

A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

He was suffering from self-love, a chief cure for which is the practice of love for others.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

It is always there for the person who will surrender his life to the Lord and keep on doing so when difficulties arise.

It is always too soon to quit.

enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, with deeper interests and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

A basic law: The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualising His presence. Then practise believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualised is true. Affirm it, visualise it, believe it, and it will actualise itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

Start looking for joy and you'll find it.

Tuhan memahami semua kesulitan, jadi bicarakanlah denganNya.

What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." LUKE 13:18–19

the church, but in memory I go and stand