John Powell Quotes

Communication works for those who work at it.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa