Dr. Peale says that success means fullness of personality, to be the best in your soul and to make a constructive contribution to your day and age. You must have a clearly defined goal to focus on so that it becomes the dominating objective in your life.

Dr. Peale says, people who believe in Jesus, who commit their lives and try to live for Him are mountain movers. They face their problems, big mountains, with faith, but small frustrating things are sometimes harder to conquer. If you think and don’t get disturbed emotionally by molehills, you can overcome them all. Dr. Peale shares the story of his friend Colonel Harland Sanders and the founding of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a second story of how he and Mrs. Peale went shopping in London to illustrate this.

Dr. Peale says we all need to know that amidst the trials of this life, God is very close and we can always talk to Him. NVP shares the story about a light in an old bracket in his house that he had never seen on. So he turned it on and it lit. If you can turn on a light that has been neglected for many years just by turning a screw, you can turn God on in your life by the turning of a thought.

Dr. Peale says Christianity is a deep experience in the soul and in the mind where you become an absolutely different person, where life takes on new meaning like you’ve never known before. So, the experience of coming to be the kind of person who will never be the same again, is to experience Christianity in depth.

Dr. Peale quotes Robert McQuilkin, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t; you’re right.” Dr. Peale met a man on a bus who had read one of his sermons that had convinced him that he could go where anyone else could go as long as he put his faith in God. Dr. Peale shares several stories of those who have taken control of their lives.

Dr. Peale tells us that whatever we make up our mind to be, we are going to be. Happiness is not superficial, it sometimes is obtained through peril toil and pain. NVP shares stories of Amos Parish, Harry DeCamp and others who have decided to be happy.

Dr. Peale tells us that the negative thinker and the positive thinker send out thoughts which activate the world around them according to how they think. The Bible is the greatest positive thinking book ever written. Its full of pain, sorrow, defeat, suffering, woe and sin, but it tells how to overcome these things. By changing your thoughts you can change the way you activate the world around you.

Dr. Peale says that when bad news comes to us so constantly by radio, television and even our public officials it can be pretty hard to take. But when you come to church you hear the good news. The word Gospel actually means, Good News. So when you come to church you will hear the Good News with which you can go out and do battle with the bad news. Dr. Peale shares several stories where the good overcame the bad as it always does in the end.

Dr. Peale says that worry and fear are nothing but thought patterns, mental attitudes and mental attitudes can be changed and the Lord is there to help you. Dr. Peale shares the stories of the great painter Howard Chandler Christy, Lord Rank and others who have overcome worry by changing their attitude.

Dr. Peale says, although some people might say that life is not good, he is here to tell them it is good. In order not to get old and stale you have to get involved in life, become part of it and it will give back in full measure. He uses the example of Jesse Owens and others who have found life is good, real good.