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.
John PowellThere is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.
John PowellGrowth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.
John PowellThere 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.
John Powell