John Powell
John Powell
lying men yesterday
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.
men initiative accepting
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
accomplish almost existed group open reflect scale source understanding within
Partnerships of this scale reflect an understanding that has long existed within the open source community. That is what we can accomplish as a group is almost always more than we can do alone.
lives love refuse shaped
Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us
boxing focused laughed main pretend run
He'd run around, pretend like he was boxing everybody, ... Everyone kind of laughed at how he was. But the main thing I would say about him, he was so focused on it.
came town
He came into town just to get those 6-inch custard pies,
children die hunger outrageous
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.
including tight
We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,
cases house work
Now we'll be able to work those cases in house more efficiently,
business cost gone inception order rates revenue secure since stream
Since the inception of E-911, the rates have not gone up, but the cost of business has gone up, ... ... We have to do something in order to secure the revenue stream for E-911.
confidence horizon grows
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
real becoming fixed
There 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.
children unique pro-life
Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow
contact
When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.