Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEMedication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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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.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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