David Powers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?
-- David Powers

#Men #Invisible
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
-- David Powers

#Friendship #Men #President
I'm just a newsboy who met a President.
-- David Powers

#President #Mets

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

David Powers famous quotes

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