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?

John Powell

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Communication works for those who work at it. by John Powell

Communication works for those who work at it.

John Powell
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You 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 one and only you.

John Powell
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If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same... by John Powell

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

John Powell
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There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

John Powell
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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.

John Powell
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The only love worthy of a name is unconditional. by John Powell

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell
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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.

John Powell
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A 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, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

John Powell
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Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in... by John Powell

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

John Powell
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A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. by John Powell

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

John Powell
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Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned. by John Powell

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

John Powell
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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.

John Powell
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When 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 strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

John Powell
giving-up real people

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

John Powell
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Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

John Powell
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We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying t... by John Powell

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

John Powell
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Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is prac... by John Powell

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

John Powell
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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.

John Powell
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The real gift of love is self disclosure. by John Powell

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

John Powell
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A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. by John Powell

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

John Powell
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