The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSONI’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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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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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Forgiveness 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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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