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!
BARBARA JOHNSONHave we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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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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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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