Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

To go fast, row slowly.

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

A peaceful mind generates power.

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

God is with me, helping me.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.