Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
BARBARA JOHNSONAll we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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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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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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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Change is a process not an event.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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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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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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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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