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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

Barbara Johnson

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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Reading Reality Teaching
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
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.
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Children Hope Out Work
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
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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Dream Faith Prayer
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
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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Eye People Rushing
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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Attitude Kindness Sneakers
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Christian Opportunity Worry
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
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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Heart Laughter Lonely
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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Glimpse Joy People

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

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