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 think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
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It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
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Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.
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A divine life is hidden in every seed we sow for Jesus. It matters not how small the seed may be, nor in what secluded part of the vineyard it may be sown — a prayer, a word, a look, a pressure of the hand — God's almighty energy is enfolded in every seed which we sow in the Master's name and for His glory.
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Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
