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.
BARBARA JOHNSONHumor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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We 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.
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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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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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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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