Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.