John PowellIf you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.374Thought
John PowellLet us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. ✨ Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Lord Raymond Reports, p. 911331PoliticsReflection
John PowellWhen 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 were st… ▶311Humanity
John PowellPain is a teacher from whom we can learn much. ✨ John Powell (1990). The Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships Through Communication, Thomas More Association302LoveSadness
John PowellA life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life,… ▶281HumanityLifeLove
John PowellHe who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.293Thought
John PowellLove supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing. ✨ John Powell (1990). The Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships Throu… ▶318Love
John PowellMore than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.265Reflection
John PowellThere 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.3010SadnessTime
John PowellCommunication works for those who work at it. ✨ John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good… ▶201Reflection
John PowellWe cannot psychologize the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.203Humanity
John PowellYou 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 o… ▶258LifeLove
John PowellHuman beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. ✨ John Powell (1990). Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelin… ▶192Humanity
John PowellGod 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 t… ▶192LifeLovePolitics
John PowellLove demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love. ✨ John Powell (1978). Unconditional love204Love
John PowellIt is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not pos… ▶206LoveTime
John PowellWe must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be. ✨ John Powell (1990). Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Gui… ▶206Love
John PowellLoneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. ✨ John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). Will the real me plea… ▶217Humanity
John PowellLife is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.174Life
John PowellEach child is sent into this world by God with a Unique Message to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow208Love
John PowellBlacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.154Time
John PowellA person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. ✨ JOHN POWELL (1967). WHY AM I AFRAID TO LOVE?145Love
John PowellHonest, 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 awa… ▶137Truth
John PowellThe only love worthy of a name is unconditional.149Love
