The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.
John PowellHuman beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
John PowellMore than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
John Powell