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Famous John Powell Quotes
“Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.”
“Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.”
“What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?”
“Our lives are shaped by those who love us”
“God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.”
“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”
“Communication works for those who work at it.”
“Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.”
“Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.”
“We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.”
“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.”
“Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.”
“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”
“He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.”
“More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.”
“When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.”
“Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.”
“There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.”