Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale, the author of the very popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking uses quotations from Bible to provide the inspiration and methods for people to believe in positive outcomes and practice positive thinking and action.
I am trying to list those quotes chapterwise.
Chapters of the Book
1. Believe in Yourself
2. A Peaceful Mind generates power
3. How to have constant energy
4. Try prayer power
5. How to create your own happiness
6. Stop fuming and fretting
7. Expect the best nad get it.
8. I don't believe in defeat
9. How to break the worry habit
10. Power to solve personal problems
11. How to use faith in healing
12. When vitality sags, try this health formula
13. Inflow of new thoughts can remake you
14. Relax for easy power
15. How to get people to like you
16. Prescription for heartache
17. How to draw upon that higher power
Epilogue
Quotations from Bible
1. Believe in Yourself
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13).
"According to your faith be it unto you." (Matthew 9:29)
"If ye have faith...nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20).
"If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)
"The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21).
2. A Peaceful Mind generates power
"...be ye transformed by the newing of your mind..." (Romans 12:2)
3. How to have constant energy
"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth stength." (Isaiah 40:29)
4. Try prayer power
"Where tow or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them." (Mathew 18:20)
5. How to create your own happiness
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)
6. Stop fuming and fretting
God neither fumes nor frets. He is peaceful and therefore efficient.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you..." (John 14:27)
7. Expect the best and get it.
If you expect the best you will get the best
"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." (Mark 9:23)
8. I don't believe in defeat
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13).
9. How to break the worry habit
"... but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)
10. Power to solve personal problems
"When two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)
11. How to use faith in healing
"...In him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28)
12. When vitality sags, try this health formula
13. Inflow of new thoughts can remake you
"The Lord is the strength of my life...in this will I be confident." (Psalm 27:1,3)
14. Relax for easy power
We believe we can indeed "do all things through Christ." (Philippians 4:13).
15. How to get people to like you
"If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." (Romans 12:18)
16. Prescription for heartache
Take into your mind and heart one the most marvelous texts in the Holy Bible for moving away from heartache.
"Eye hath not see, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." (I Corinthians 2:9).
17. How to draw upon that higher power
"... They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:28-31)
Epilogue
Norman Vincent Peale concluded the book with the statement:
I wrote the book with the sincere desire to help you.
We may never meet in person, but in this book we have met. We are spiritual friends. I pray for you. God will help you - so believe (in yourself, in prayer and in God) and live successfully.
Beatitudes - The Be-Happy Attitudes from Bible
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