John Powell Quotes

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• Communication works for those who work at it.

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  Work, Communication, Media

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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

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  Godly, Thinking, Yesterday

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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.

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  Real, Two, Tragedy

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

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  Acceptance, Rejection, Atmosphere

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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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.

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  Love Is, Giving, Self Love

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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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.

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  Past, Thinking, Depth

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

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  Trying, Should

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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• The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

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  Love, Names, Unconditional Acceptance

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Soul

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• A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

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  Want, Nonviolent Communication, Good Listener

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• God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.

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  God, Lonely, Heart

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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.

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  Love, Happy Life, Grace

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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.

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  Real, Communication, World

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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

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  Love, Feelings, Action

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• Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

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  Self, Contentment, True Self

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• Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

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  Education, Teacher, Pain

  John Powell (1990). “The Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships Through Communication”, Thomas More Association

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• To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

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  Feelings, Categories, My Thoughts

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• Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

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  Attitude, Painful, Pleasant

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

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  Life, Pieces, Exciting

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• The real gift of love is self disclosure.

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  Courage, Real, Love Is

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

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  Children, Unique, Pro Life

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

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  Confidence, Spiritual, Horizon

  JOHN POWELL (1967). “WHY AM I AFRAID TO LOVE?”

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• 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?

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  Dream, Prayer, Asking

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

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  Love, Focus, Needs

  John Powell (1978). “Unconditional love”

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