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.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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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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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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