Norman Vincent Peale - God Quotes

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If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

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Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

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And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

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Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

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If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need.

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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.

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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

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Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.

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Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

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Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

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The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

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Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."

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Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

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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.

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God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

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Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

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The dynamic and positive attitude is a strong magnetic force which, by its very nature, attracts good results.
This, of course, does not mean you will get everything you want. When you live on a faith basis your desire will be only for that which you can ask in God's name. But whatever you should have, whatever is good for you will be granted.

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Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

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Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

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Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

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Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

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A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others... they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.

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Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

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God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.

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It's not necessary to be born again. You have your way to God, I have mine. I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine … I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. … Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

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The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

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Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

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Who is God? Some theological being? He is so much greater than theology. God is vitality. God is life. God is energy. As you breathe God in, as you visualize His energy, you will be reenergized!

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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

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