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NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

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(Expert # 29)

N n Vincent Peale Quick Facts

Area: Spirituality; Inspiration

es Best-Seller: “The Power of Positive Thinking” (over 20 million

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P : Author; Pastor; Christian Psychology Pioneer;
1898-1993
ry Affiliation: Guideposts magazine

N rman Vincent Peale Biography

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9 2, Peale served as pastor at a succession of churches before changing his
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ns on a positive approach to modern living.

B n 1898, Peale confessed that as a youth he had an inferiority complex and
e ped his philosophy of positive thinking just to help himself. In 1937, Peale
shed a clinic with Freudian psychiatrist Dr. Smiley Blanton in the basement
Marble Collegiate Church, which grew to an operation with more than 20
psychiatric doctors and psychologically-trained m
In te of Religion and Health (IRH).

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until his death in 1993. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has also published several best-se
including The Power of Positive Thinking, which has sold more than 20 million
copies. Peale pioneered Christian Psychology and in 1945, founded the
Foundation for Christian Living with his wife, Ruth.

D Riklan’s favorite Norman Vincent Peale Quotes and Thoughts

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or ac

are, raise your sights and see possibilities—always see them, for th

always there.

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