Mike Powell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!

  • Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

  • I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  • Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

  • The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  • Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  • The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  • Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

  • I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

  • Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

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