Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
Quotes to Explore
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.
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Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
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The noble man is only God's image.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.
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Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
