John Powell
John Powell
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.
keeps score stomach
When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score
people
We want to let people know we're here.
emerging future lead
Certainly, these emerging technologies can lead to better communications in the future,
became felt friends-or-friendship knew people true
Once he became the champ, he told me he didn't really know who his friends were any more, ... He told me he felt like his only real, true friends were in Louisville. ... This is where the people really knew him and made him feel the most comfortable.
anytime certainly hands stop street takes work
Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. ...It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.