John Powell
John Powell
bridges growth process
Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.
self contentment true-self
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.
greatness sky bird
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.
attitude painful pleasant
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
different saint principles
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.
let-it-go affliction might
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
dream prayer asking
I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?
brain rockets myth
There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
men initiative accepting
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
wisdom pain soul
There 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.
lying men yesterday
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.
reinventing-yourself
You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.
asking regular special treated
We're not asking to be treated in any special way. We're asking for the regular process.
children die hunger outrageous
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.