100 Quotes by John Powell

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

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?

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.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

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

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.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.