John Powell Quotes

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• The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
• Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.
• 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…
• 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…
• If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
• Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.
• We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
• Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow
• Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
• 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…
• 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.
• When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi…
• Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
• Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
• Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
• He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.
• It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love…
• A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy…
• God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and…

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