John Powell
John Powell
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.
godly thinking yesterday
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
blessed cease laugh laughter learned shall
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained
command control
Communications is the linchpin. You can't have command and control without communications.
pay picture realistic trying
We're trying to get a realistic picture of just what E-911 will pay for,
beyond continuing folks housing interested step willing
You folks are not willing to go beyond any step beyond what we agreed. I am not even interested in continuing the housing development,
keeps score stomach
When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score
business cost gone inception order rates revenue secure since stream
Since the inception of E-911, the rates have not gone up, but the cost of business has gone up, ... ... We have to do something in order to secure the revenue stream for E-911.
cases house work
Now we'll be able to work those cases in house more efficiently,
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.