Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
- Norman Vincent Peale
God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
- Norman Vincent Peale