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.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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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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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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If 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.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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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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