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.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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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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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!
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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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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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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