God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
BARBARA JOHNSONIf you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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We can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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