Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSONNo one likes change… but babies in diapers.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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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.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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