I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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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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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy 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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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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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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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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