“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.” — John Powell Consumerism Copy Share Image
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days. — John Powell Copy Share Image
When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other. — John Powell Change Copy Share Image
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative. — John Powell Copy Share Image
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today. — John Powell Godly Copy Share Image
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. — John Powell Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell… — John Powell Ancient Copy Share Image
If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today.… — John Powell Being different Copy Share Image
A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true… — John Powell Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take… — John Powell Approach Copy Share Image
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us… — John Powell Affliction Copy Share Image
There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a… — John Powell Copy Share Image