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.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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