Jim Powell > Quotes

“People with teachable spirits realize the value of humility and how little they actually know before consequences force them to act.”
― Jim Powell, Dirt Matters: The Foundation For a Healthy, Vibrant, And Effective Congregation

“But that reminds me now: Anactória,
she’s not here, and I’d rather see her lovely
step, her sparkling glance and her face than gaze on
all the troops in Lydia in their chariots and glittering armor.”
― Jim Powell, The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems

“But simply carving out a good life on earth is not the end goal. And in some cases, it can actually distract us from the bigger vision of being transformed into Christlikeness.”
― Jim Powell, Dirt Matters: The Foundation For a Healthy, Vibrant, And Effective Congregation

“In the book Transformational Church, the authors say, “Churches do not change until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing.”
― Jim Powell, Dirt Matters: The Foundation For a Healthy, Vibrant, And Effective Congregation

“Illusion is a parasite upon reality, and the other way about. They’re symbiotic. If you can’t define reality, how can you define illusion? They’re different facets of the same thing.”
― Jim Powell