Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
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When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
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If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.
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President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.
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In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
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The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
