John Powell
John Powell
weekend player want
Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.
grace action grace-of-god
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
love focus attention
Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
past thinking different
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.
law reason cases
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
life pieces exciting
Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.
christian exercise genius
The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.
godly thinking yesterday
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
courage real love-is
The real gift of love is self disclosure.
real communication world
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.
children hunger should
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.
children abuse prison
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
including tight
We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,
boxing focused laughed main pretend run
He'd run around, pretend like he was boxing everybody, ... Everyone kind of laughed at how he was. But the main thing I would say about him, he was so focused on it.