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Norman and his two brothers grew up in a conservative Methodist atmosphere in Bowersville. As a boy, Peale often had feelings of insecurity and was sensitive to criticism. He prayed about these things and forced himself to take a number of sales jobs to help him deal with his inferiority complex.

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In Peale graduated from high school in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He attended the School of Theology at Boston University from to and was ordained by the Methodist Church in He preached his first sermon on 3 April at the Methodist church in Walpole, Massachusetts. Not an abstract thinker, Peale was critical of the program at Boston University, suggesting that there was too much philosophy and theology and not enough practical studies.

Even though he remained politically conservative all his life, he became an adherent of the liberal religious tradition that focused on the social gospel. He graduated in with a bachelor of sacred theology degree and a master of arts degree in social ethics. He later studied at Syracuse University and received a doctor of divinity degree in He was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree from his undergraduate alma mater , Ohio Wesleyan University, in After ordination in , Peale became a student pastor at the Berkeley Church in Berkeley, Rhode Island, where he served until his graduation from Boston University in , when he was assigned to St.

During his three years at St. In he became the pastor of the University Methodist Church in Syracuse, New York, where he was one of the first pastors to have his own radio program. On 20 June Peale married Ruth Stafford. She was an essential sounding board for his ideas and the administrative aide for his many projects.