“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!”

—  Norman Vincent Peale

"No More Stress or Tension" in Plus : The Magazine of Positive Thinking (May 1986), p. 22

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