John Powell
John Powell
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.
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.
confidence horizon grows
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
real becoming fixed
There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.
children unique pro-life
Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow
contact
When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.
doe
Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.
love feelings action
Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.
want good-listener listeners
A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
love-is giving self-love
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 affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.
acceptance rejection atmosphere
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.