Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Change is a process not an event.
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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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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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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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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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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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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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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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