Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you." JOB 22:21

Change your thoughts and you change your world

What, then, shall we say in response to these things?" What things? Why, anything! Disappointment, frustration, nervousness, despair, anxiety, injustice: "What shall we then say to these things?" Well, the answer is . . . "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Isn't that wonderful? That is resonant, that is sturdy, that is the essence of victory.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.

The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

my suggestion was that every night, upon going to bed, he place a chair beside his bed and tell himself that Jesus was sitting in that chair all night, watching over him and lifting the burden of worry from his shoulders.

The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom.

There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;