Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
BARBARA JOHNSONTeaching 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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