Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned. John Powell More Quotes by John Powell More Quotes From John Powell To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me. John Powell my-thoughts categories feelings 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. John Powell becoming real process When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other. John Powell contact We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. John Powell grace-of-god grace action You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"? John Powell heart attitude beautiful I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully human. They seem a little rigid and narrow at times, wanting to be holy, but not human. They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without realizing or enjoying the beauty of earth. They keep the ten commandments, but their observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small and the air in that world is stale. John Powell brother religious winning More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. John Powell abuse prison children 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. John Powell let-it-go hot world He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough. John Powell learning education inspiring Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love. John Powell focus love needs Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. John Powell cases law reason 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. John Powell greatness sky bird Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. John Powell pace lonely loneliness 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. John Powell hunger should children Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful. John Powell pleasant painful attitude God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative. John Powell initiative accepting men 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. John Powell weekend player want Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. John Powell saint different principles Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much. John Powell pain education teacher 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. John Powell pain soul wisdom
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