John Powell may refer to::
The real gift of love is self disclosure.
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.
You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.
A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
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.
What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.
Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.
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 enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things. " And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.
Communication works for those who work at it.
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.
If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.
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.
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.