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?
John PowellMore than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
John PowellLove supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.
John PowellOld cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.
John PowellWhen Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.
John Powell