Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
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True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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