We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSONTeaching 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Change is a process not an event.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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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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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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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