Gospel of Mark

Believe it and it will come

Earliest we can find

This is the earliest source we can find for the idea. Said again in 4 books on our list: James Allen, As a Man Thinketh (1903), Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich (1910), Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937) and Rhonda Byrne, The Secret (2006).

1. “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”