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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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.
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Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
