Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

Let us try to fill this room with the healing grace of the greatest of all physicians, Jesus Christ.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.

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God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.

The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.

January 29 Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. Name all the fine things you possess, all the wonderful things that have happened to you, and thank God for them. Make that your prayer.

Negative conversation adversely affects circumstances. Certainly talk of a tense and nervous nature enhances inner agitation.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you." JOB 22:21

Change your thoughts and you change your world

What, then, shall we say in response to these things?" What things? Why, anything! Disappointment, frustration, nervousness, despair, anxiety, injustice: "What shall we then say to these things?" Well, the answer is . . . "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Isn't that wonderful? That is resonant, that is sturdy, that is the essence of victory.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.

The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

my suggestion was that every night, upon going to bed, he place a chair beside his bed and tell himself that Jesus was sitting in that chair all night, watching over him and lifting the burden of worry from his shoulders.

The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom.

There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers.

Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.