Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.