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.
BARBARA JOHNSONAlways remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Change is a process not an event.
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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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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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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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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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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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 secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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