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.
BARBARA JOHNSONLive 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Change is a process not an event.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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 is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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